Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Clifford Chance acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 29 Sep 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 2280 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In commercial litigation involving competing monetary claims, the party entitled to the net payment will generally be the overall successful party for costs.…
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| 17 Feb 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 304 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A restructuring plan under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 falls within the bankruptcy exclusion in the Lugano Convention. Its financial-difficulty…
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32 |
| 23 May 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 577 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A domicile of choice requires voluntarily chosen residence and a fixed intention to make the country the person’s permanent or indefinite home. The issue must…
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30 |
| 30 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1802 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant resides in a non-Convention state, security for costs must be ordered on objectively justified and non-discriminatory grounds. A real risk of…
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30 |
| 25 Mar 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 314 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Civil Procedure Rules 1998 r 62.10 makes privacy the starting point for most arbitration claims, but it does not create automatic or permanent secrecy. Once…
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30 |
| 27 May 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 1186 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A bank’s provision of information, opinions and recommendations through a product salesman does not, without more, create a general contractual or tortious…
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28 |
| 11 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1303 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where parties use solicitors to prepare formal written agreements for execution, the normal inference is that they intend to become bound only when every…
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28 |
| 6 May 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 1104 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For a solvent foreign company, the expression liable to be wound up in Companies Act 2006 scheme legislation identifies a category of company capable of…
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27 |
| 27 Jul 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 40 · Supreme Court
An arbitrator appointed to determine a dispute is an independent adjudicator, not a person employed under a contract personally to do work. The relevant…
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26 |
| 27 Feb 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 205 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claim served outside the jurisdiction must fall within the jurisdictional ground identified by the originating process and supporting evidence. A claimant…
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23 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 9 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1733 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 14 of Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, the Secretary of State must address whether replacing assimilated law increases the…
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| 30 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1622 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In large shareholder claims under sections 90 and 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the decision whether to split a trial is an essentially…
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| 17 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1511 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When exercising the power to make a filing modification order under CPR PD 51ZH, the court must balance the value of wider document access in promoting open…
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| 3 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1277 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual power allowing a party to render an early termination agreement null and void and revert to earlier contractual rights is construed in its full…
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| 16 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 877 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Legal advice privilege is not confined to documents passing directly between lawyer and client. It may extend to intra-client communications and documents…
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| 24 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 691 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In an unusual “dog-leg” claim, the principle that currency fluctuations between breach and judgment are generally disregarded applied to the indemnity claim…
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| 23 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 20 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014, whether a child is in a local authority’s area is generally determined by ordinary residence, not physical…
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| 20 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 216 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An order for pre-action disclosure under rule 31.16 may be made where the intended claimant and respondent are likely to be parties, the documents would fall…
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| 9 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1594 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Commercial contracts are interpreted objectively, as a whole and in context. Where a party is said to relinquish a valuable right, clear words are required…
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| 28 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2243 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Applications to restrict disclosure because inspection might breach foreign criminal law require a staged analysis. The applicant must first establish that…
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| 31 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1999 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In determining costs, the court should assess the parties’ reasonable costs by reference to the outcome of each application, the degree of success, the work…
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| 31 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1938 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Performance bonds may constitute “funds” and, alternatively, “economic resources” for the purposes of Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014. Where the…
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