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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Debenhams Ottaway LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
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| 17 May 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1235 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to make a very late amendment should be refused where the resulting pleading, disclosure and evidence cannot be completed fairly without losing a…
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12 |
| 21 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2976 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 requires proof of a transaction at an undervalue and a subjective purpose of prejudicing an actual or potential…
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5 |
| 15 Sep 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 2992 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contract incorporating specified standard terms does not ordinarily incorporate revised terms issued from time to time unless clear language provides for…
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3 |
Recent cases
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| 25 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3119 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When an interlocutory costs order is revisited after an appeal has corrected the legal analysis, the court must assess the interlocutory contest as a whole.…
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| 13 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2639 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A party cannot recast its contractual rights by relying on subjective beliefs or later-created terminology. Professionally drafted agreements are construed…
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| 31 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1962 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company director cannot receive remuneration merely because the company’s affairs were conducted informally. The company’s constitution must be followed, or…
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| 27 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1327 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Evidence of an incident need not be pleaded as a separate allegation if it is relevant to an issue between the parties. Evidence may be admissible as an…
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| 17 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 654 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Summary possession, summary judgment and strike-out procedures should not be used to determine a complex forfeiture claim requiring factual investigation.…
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| 21 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2976 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 requires proof of a transaction at an undervalue and a subjective purpose of prejudicing an actual or potential…
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5 |
| 17 May 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1235 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to make a very late amendment should be refused where the resulting pleading, disclosure and evidence cannot be completed fairly without losing a…
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12 |
| 30 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 996 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Applications to revisit or extend an order for Extended Disclosure under PD 57AD require careful identification of the applicable power. Paragraph 17 addresses…
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1 |
| 20 Sep 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2302 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A foreign judgment remains capable of recognition and enforcement in England if it is final and conclusive in its jurisdiction of origin. Local legislation or…
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| 11 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3393 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In determining meaning and whether words are fact or opinion in a defamation claim, the court must assess the publication as a whole from the perspective of…
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1 |
| 13 Apr 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 658 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Damages for wrongful termination are assessed by asking what benefits the claimant would have received if the contract had continued until the earliest date on…
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1 |
| 30 Nov 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3441 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Overreaching requires a conveyance of the legal estate to a purchaser, made by the trustees of land, with the purchase money paid to or applied at the…
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