Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases DAC Beachcroft acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 17 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 220 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a conduct dismissal case, an employment tribunal must assess the employer’s investigation, belief and grounds for that belief at the time of dismissal. It…
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92 |
| 15 Jan 2021 |
[2021] UKSC 1 · Supreme Court
Business interruption cover must be construed objectively and as a coherent whole. A radius-limited disease clause covers cases of disease occurring within the…
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63 |
| 27 Jul 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 48 · Supreme Court
For deceit, belief in the truth of a fraudulent representation is not an independent requirement. The representation must have induced the representee to act…
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49 |
| 8 Jun 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1305 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A decision-maker must take account of a consideration not identified by statute where it is so obviously material that no reasonable decision-maker would omit…
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30 |
| 18 May 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1321 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Subscription applications for an investment scheme are not ordinarily subject to implied conditions precedent which are unclear, evaluative or concern future…
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27 |
| 28 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3221 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to amend pleadings is a fact-sensitive exercise requiring a fair balance between the applicant’s ability to present the real dispute and prejudice…
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24 |
| 17 Apr 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 775 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Summary judgment should be granted only where the defendant has no real prospect of successfully defending the claim and there is no other compelling reason…
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22 |
| 6 Nov 2020 |
[2020] UKSC 45 · Supreme Court
Under section 84(1)(aa) and (1A)(b) of the Law of Property Act 1925, the jurisdictional question is whether continuation of a restrictive covenant impedes a…
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21 |
| 16 Jun 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 814 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under a construction contract, whether certification is a condition precedent to payment depends on the contract’s construction. Where the payment machinery…
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20 |
| 1 May 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 474 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether an amendment introduces a new cause of action depends on a comparison of the essential factual elements of the existing and proposed claims. Further…
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19 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 1 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EAT 150 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
A qualifying disclosure must contain enough factual content and specificity to be capable of tending to show a listed failure, or to be reasonably believed to…
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| 29 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2468 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For Article 14, “ambit” and “interference” are distinct. A measure falls within the ambit of a substantive Convention right if it has more than a merely…
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2109 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the permission stage, a judicial review claim must be arguable with a realistic prospect of success. Statutory duties to arrange health, palliative and…
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| 5 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EAT 116 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Rule 64 permits an employment tribunal to make a consent order on terms agreed in writing at any time during a claim, or orally at a hearing. An unenforceable…
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| 30 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1605 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application for strike-out or summary judgment, a claim should proceed where the pleaded case has a realistic, evidence-based prospect of success.…
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| 17 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 752 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A public authority that licenses or supervises activity by third parties does not ordinarily owe a common-law duty to protect road users from harm caused by a…
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| 29 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1288 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A statement of case may be struck out where it is incoherent, discloses no legally recognisable claim, or omits the essential facts needed to establish…
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| 29 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1284 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In clinical negligence claims, a prescription-only medicine administered in hospital must be directed in writing where the statutory hospital exemption…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EAT 74 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
When assessing contributory conduct, an Employment Tribunal must distinguish the basic award from the compensatory award. Conduct before dismissal may be…
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 500 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An amendment must present a coherent, self-contained and sufficiently particularised case with a real prospect of success. In a breach of confidence claim, the…
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| 22 Apr 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
Under a business interruption policy, a savings clause referring to charges or expenses which cease or reduce is concerned with the economic burden borne by…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 898 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a medical-negligence claim concerning psychiatric risk assessment, a clinician does not breach the Bolam standard merely because another competent…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, DAC Beachcroft: Davies Arnold Cooper, Beachcroft Wansbroughs, Wansbroughs, Williams Holden Cooklin Gibbons LLP, KSB Law, DAC (London).
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which DAC Beachcroft 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 DAC Beachcroft. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.