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Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP is named as solicitors in at least 84 UK judgments from 2009 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and civil fraud and asset recovery.

84
judgments
22
in the last five years
12
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes29
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery20
  • Cross-border disputes13
  • Trusts, wills and private client12
  • Arbitration6
  • Company and partnership6
  • Banking and finance6
  • Real estate3

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)12
  • High Court72

Counsel most often instructed

  • Tim Lord8
  • Kyle Lawson7
  • Gideon Shirazi6
  • Laurence Emmett6
  • Stephen Auld5
  • Adam Cloherty4
  • James Fox4
  • Josephine Davies4

Judgments by year

  • 20262
  • 20254
  • 20248
  • 20235
  • 20223
  • 20212
  • 20206
  • 20196
  • 20189
  • 20175
  • 20163
  • 20159
  • 20146
  • 20135
  • 20122
  • 20112
  • 20105
  • 20092

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
13 Jul 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 725 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A non-exclusive jurisdiction clause ordinarily accepts the possibility of parallel proceedings. Its effect depends on its wording. Foreign proceedings are not…
57
11 Jul 2018
[2018] EWHC 1768 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A director who secretly receives commissions generated from transactions undertaken for the company breaches the strict no-conflict, no-profit and loyalty…
28
14 May 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 636 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A standard-form freezing order restrains assets beneficially owned by the defendant. It does not directly freeze assets owned by a separate company merely…
23
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…
23
26 Jul 2018
[2018] EWHC 2230 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Money procured by theft or fraud is impressed with a constructive trust and may be traced into mixed bank accounts, subject to the lowest intermediate balance…
21
18 Jan 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 11 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of disclosure and judgment enforcement, control of documents depends on the true relationship between the litigant and the person holding…
16
8 Nov 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 1372 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An allegation of an implied representation should not be rejected summarily where its existence depends on the full factual context. A bank proposing a…
10
18 Dec 2018
[2018] EWHC 3521 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party alleging fraud must plead the material primary facts from which dishonesty may properly be inferred. A knowingly false case advanced in earlier…
10
9 Mar 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 230 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A creditor taking a loan guarantee must disclose unusual features of the contractual relationship between the creditor and debtor, or between the creditor and…
10
29 Apr 2015
[2015] EWHC 1181 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to make a substantial amendment shortly before trial depends on a fair balance between the history and explanation for the delay, the prejudice to…
9

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
17 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 629 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An applicant who obtains an interlocutory injunction ordinarily gives a cross-undertaking in damages. Where the injunction is later discharged and loss may…
1
25 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 405 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On applications concerning a derivative claim and service out of the jurisdiction, the court must focus on whether the pleaded case has a real prospect of…
6 Mar 2025
[2025] EWHC 505 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Further disclosure in support of a freezing order may be ordered where it is necessary, just and convenient to police the injunction. The same approach applies…
14 Feb 2025
[2025] EWHC 304 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When ordering an interim payment on account of costs, the court need not identify the irreducible minimum of the receiving party’s recovery. It should estimate…
29 Jan 2025
[2025] EWHC 149 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For relief under section 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, the court must first consider whether the relief would be available in equivalent…
17 Jan 2025
[2025] EWHC 59 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On jurisdictional applications, the claimant must show that the pleaded case has a real, rather than fanciful, prospect of success. An unlawful-means…
7
6 Dec 2024
[2024] EWHC 3150 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
The court may make an asset disclosure order extending beyond the territorial scope of an existing freezing order where the information is needed to police…
10 Oct 2024
[2024] EWHC 2568 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For an interim freezing order supporting foreign proceedings, the claimant must establish personal jurisdiction, foreign civil proceedings, a good arguable…
9 Sep 2024
[2024] EWHC 3027 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where confidential asset information must be disclosed under an interim freezing order, a confidentiality club may include the receiving party’s existing…
2 Apr 2024
[2024] EWHC 735 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Summary judgment may be granted on a fraud-based claim where the defendant has no realistic prospect of defending it, but the court must approach the…
6 Mar 2024
[2024] EWHC 458 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary judgment application, the claimant must show a realistic prospect of success, meaning more than a merely arguable case. The court must avoid a…
1
13 Feb 2024
[2024] EWHC 297 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Disclosure of litigation-funding information may be ordered in support of a prospective non-party costs application. The applicant need not show that the…
1

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Cooke, Young & Keidan 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 Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.