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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Clarke Willmott LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Oct 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2219 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Priority under the European Patent Convention is available only where the skilled person can derive the claimed subject matter directly and unambiguously from…
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41 |
| 11 Mar 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 15 · Supreme Court
A possession claim cannot succeed if eviction would constitute disability discrimination under sections 15 and 35(1)(b) of the Equality Act 2010. Unlike an…
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35 |
| 12 May 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 542 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Insolvency Act 1986 section 423 turns on the purpose for which a transaction at an undervalue was entered into. The transaction need not itself cause the…
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35 |
| 17 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 152 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The sequential test in national flood-risk planning policy applies to new development on previously developed land and to development that would reduce…
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25 |
| 10 Mar 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 224 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where fresh evidence raises a contested allegation that a party deliberately misled the trial court, an appellate court should not set aside an established…
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24 |
| 27 Aug 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 1714 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to make a late amendment requires a clear and properly particularised pleading. A genuinely new claim must have a real, rather than fanciful…
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21 |
| 9 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 1197 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A regulatory rule and its statutory remedy do not, without more, create a concurrent common-law duty of care with the same content. A duty to advise depends on…
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19 |
| 2 Sep 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 2304 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An investment adviser gives regulated investment advice when information is accompanied by a value judgment or selected so as to influence the client's…
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11 |
| 12 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 279 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The flood-risk sequential test is an open-textured planning policy. It asks whether reasonably available sites appropriate for the proposed development exist…
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10 |
| 11 Mar 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 605 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Legacy Programme was an operational scheme for managing an asylum backlog. It created no substantive right, amnesty or separate entitlement to leave. Cases…
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9 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2623 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For judicial review, time runs from the date the challenged decision was made, not the date the claimant learned of it. Later explanations do not restart time…
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| 30 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2014 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A foreign judgment has no direct operation in England. It may be enforced only where the foreign court had jurisdiction under English conflict-of-laws…
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| 12 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1430 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Failure of the flood-risk sequential test does not automatically determine a planning application. The decision-maker must place that failure in the overall…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 165 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Planning policy must be interpreted objectively, by reference to its language, context and practical purpose. The meaning of a policy is a legal question, but…
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| 3 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2829 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In contentious probate proceedings, the general rule that costs follow the event remains applicable. The second probate exception may justify no order as to…
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| 22 Oct 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 35 · Supreme Court
Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 applies at a later stage of a multi-stage planning process where approval or…
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8 |
| 10 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 882 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a libel claim, the one-year limitation period runs from publication. A claimant cannot postpone time under section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980 by awaiting…
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| 14 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 268 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For Insolvency Act 1986 section 423(3), a transaction entered into to prevent a tax liability from arising is not, without more, a transaction entered into to…
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3 |
| 7 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 485 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company director who receives company money must account for it and show that each payment was proper. Once the liquidator proves receipt of a payment, the…
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| 30 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 32 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) are both statements of national planning policy, although they serve…
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2 |
| 16 Sep 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2263 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Extensions of time in planning judicial review claims require promptness, procedural diligence and a careful balance between the claimant’s interests, the…
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2 |
| 7 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2088 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a planning judgment, the court confirmed that the weight given to material considerations is ordinarily a matter of planning judgment, subject to public law…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Clarke Willmott LLP: Latitude Law, Clarke Willmott & Clarke.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Clarke Willmott LLP is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Clarke Willmott LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.