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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Debevoise & Plimpton LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 12 Jun 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 35 · Supreme Court
An arbitration agreement contains both a positive promise to arbitrate and a fundamental negative promise not to pursue covered claims elsewhere. The negative…
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| 4 Feb 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 121 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge to an arbitral tribunal’s substantive jurisdiction under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is a re-hearing of the jurisdiction issue. The…
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16 |
| 4 Dec 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3332 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For security for costs, a person may be resident in more than one jurisdiction. A person who habitually and lawfully chooses to spend a significant part of…
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15 |
| 11 Jul 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 1686 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Part 23 of the Companies Act 2006 tests a distribution against specified financial items in the relevant accounts. A solvency statement for a capital reduction…
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13 |
| 23 Apr 2018 |
[2018] UKPC 7 · Privy Council
A trustee of a Jersey trust may incur liability in a separate fiduciary capacity where the counterparty knows that the trustee acts as trustee. Under article…
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10 |
| 2 Mar 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 459 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
For limitation purposes, a single oil spill causing continuing consequential damage ordinarily constitutes one nuisance, not a continuing nuisance, unless the…
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7 |
| 10 May 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 16 · Supreme Court
A continuing private nuisance requires repeated activity or an ongoing state of affairs outside the claimant’s land, for which the defendant is responsible…
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6 |
| 27 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 1911 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A foreign judgment setting aside an arbitral award is not refused recognition merely because it is wrong or manifestly wrong. The applicant must establish…
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5 |
| 22 May 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 1315 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under Article 29 of the Brussels Regulation (Recast), proceedings concern the same cause where the basic facts and claimed rights and obligations coincide…
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5 |
| 2 Jul 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 1758 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party’s procedural label does not determine whether it is a claimant or defendant for a particular claim. The court must examine the substance of the…
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5 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2332 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An environmental tort claim does not become an impermissible global claim merely because some causative events are unidentified and causation is proved by…
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| 20 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 56 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An arbitration clause in a sophisticated settlement agreement should ordinarily be construed as providing a one-stop forum for disputes arising from the…
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| 20 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3064 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a reverse summary judgment application, a claimant need only show a real prospect of establishing the pleaded case. The court may closely examine evidence…
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| 25 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 847 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A claim for a mandatory injunction may be particularised by amendment where the relief has always formed part of the pleaded case and the proposed terms are…
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| 7 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 253 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual price-adjustment clause referring to a sale may apply to a transfer for value to a related company where the agreement contains no express…
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| 6 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1500 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An amendment made after expiry of a limitation period does not engage Civil Procedure Rules 1998, r 17.4 where it merely gives further particulars of a broadly…
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4 |
| 12 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 276 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A properly arguable environmental clean-up claim should not be summarily dismissed merely because an agreed remediation scheme is substantially complete.…
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| 22 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2961 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In large environmental group litigation, a claimant relying on an events-based case must identify the event said to have caused loss, and must plead the…
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1 |
| 15 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2862 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment or strike out is appropriate where the claim has no realistic prospect of success. The court must avoid a mini-trial and consider whether…
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| 10 May 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 16 · Supreme Court
A continuing private nuisance requires repeated activity or an ongoing state of affairs outside the claimant’s land, for which the defendant is responsible…
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6 |
| 28 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 424 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
For limitation purposes, actionable damage from a marine oil spill accrues when the claimant’s land or water supplies are first impacted. The court rejected…
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1 |
| 13 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2575 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Restitution following rescission is directed to restoring the parties to the actual status quo ante, not to placing them in the counterfactual position they…
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2 |
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