Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Collyer Bristow acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 13 Dec 2010 |
[2010] UKPC 32 · Privy Council
A substantive legitimate expectation based on a promise arises where the claimant proves a clear, unambiguous and unqualified representation. Reliance and…
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| 31 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1382 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compensatory libel damages address injury to reputation, vindication and distress. Their assessment is fact specific and subject to necessity and…
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52 |
| 1 Apr 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 350 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether words are fact or comment depends on their full context and subject matter. In a scientific controversy, an assertion that there is no evidence for a…
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43 |
| 11 Jan 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 3 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The prima facie measure for destruction of a chattel is its market or resale value. Cost of replacement or reinstatement may instead be recovered where the…
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37 |
| 18 Jul 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1926 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A person commits deceit by knowingly, recklessly or without honest belief making a materially false representation intending it to be acted upon, where it…
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23 |
| 7 May 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 768 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where interlinked commercial contracts contain different exclusive jurisdiction clauses, construction starts from the likelihood that each clause governs…
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21 |
| 11 Sep 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 2436 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A negative declaration is a discretionary remedy whose touchstone is utility. The court must scrutinise whether it will resolve a real and present dispute…
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11 |
| 18 Jan 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 63 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent claim is construed according to its language read in the context of the specification. A therapeutic-use limitation cannot be implied where the claim…
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10 |
| 30 Nov 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 3440 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trade mark specifications must be construed by their ordinary and natural meaning, assessed in the context of trade and the goods concerned. A product may fall…
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9 |
| 10 May 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 1185 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A garden-leave provision may apply during notice even where the employee performs some duties. However, a separate covenant deducting time spent on garden…
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8 |
Recent cases
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| 5 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1368 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A claimant seeking a beneficial interest under a common intention constructive trust must prove the parties’ shared intention, assessed in light of their whole…
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| 11 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1041 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Service of a claim form out of the jurisdiction may be effected by a method permitted by the law of the country of service, subject to the restrictions in CPR…
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| 30 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 749 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where an English court assists a foreign court by ordering examination of a witness, the usual starting point is that the party obtaining the order bears the…
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| 14 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 522 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Company directors must account for company money they receive, but liability does not follow automatically from an unexplained payment. The court must assess…
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| 6 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2053 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Directors must use company assets for proper corporate purposes and must genuinely consider the company’s interests. Where a company is insolvent or bordering…
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| 31 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1968 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment may be granted where the evidence establishes that a defence has no real prospect of success, but the court must avoid conducting a…
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| 13 May 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1303 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to appeal under CPR rule 52.6(1) requires a real prospect of success or another compelling reason. Where a statutory intellectual-property right is…
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| 24 Apr 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 920 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An urgent application to suspend a bankrupt’s discharge may be heard and granted on short service or without service under Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules…
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| 21 Mar 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 618 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A service-charge clause must be construed by its ordinary contractual meaning. There is no general rule requiring service-charge provisions to be construed…
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| 15 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 316 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For a challenge under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996, a tribunal may decide an issue that was not pleaded in precise terms if its essential building…
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| 25 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 3009 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An individual voluntary arrangement may be challenged where creditor votes rest on debts that have not been proved. A challenged creditor should have an…
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| 17 Dec 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 3432 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual revenue-share entitlement is determined by the objective construction of the agreement, read as a whole and in its factual and commercial…
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