Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases DLA Piper UK LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 13 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 725 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application under Part 24 of the Civil Procedure Rules, the court should determine a short point of law or contractual construction where all necessary…
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308 |
| 10 Mar 2011 |
[2011] UKPC 7 · Privy Council
Permission to serve a foreign defendant outside the jurisdiction requires a serious issue to be tried, a good arguable case within the relevant jurisdictional…
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258 |
| 3 Jul 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 46 · Supreme Court
A judgment that a patent is valid and infringed does not prevent the defendant from relying, during an outstanding damages enquiry, on a later retrospective…
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234 |
| 10 May 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 37 · Supreme Court
National planning policy is guidance and a material consideration. It remains subordinate to the statutory development plan. Paragraph 49 of the National…
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143 |
| 22 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1062 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent claims are construed purposively through the skilled reader, who is taken to understand relevant drafting conventions and divisional applications.…
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99 |
| 15 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 200 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An implied term restraining arbitrary, capricious or irrational conduct arises where a party has a contractual discretion requiring an assessment or choice…
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44 |
| 13 Nov 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1202 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compensation for discriminatory dismissal is assessed by comparing the claimant’s actual position with the position absent discrimination. A real chance of…
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39 |
| 15 Nov 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 3181 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A post-termination employment covenant is enforceable only where it protects a legitimate business interest and is no wider than reasonably necessary in the…
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38 |
| 14 Dec 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 2909 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 concerns challenges to substantive jurisdiction, not ordinary merits determinations concerning the validity of the…
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33 |
| 5 May 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 485 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A commercial contract requiring an airline to establish and operate a two-aircraft base was enforceable although it did not prescribe a minimum number of…
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32 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 20 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2160 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An application for pre-action disclosure under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 r 31.16 does not require proof that proceedings are likely to be issued. It is…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1931 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A contractual reference to developing an API can impose an obligation to make it available where the agreement, read as a whole, treats it as replacing a…
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| 14 Jul 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 21 · Supreme Court
Section 172(1) of the Companies Act 2006 requires a director to act, and not merely to think, in good faith. A court must respect a genuine business judgment…
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4 |
| 29 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 825 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application under the Subsidy Control Act 2022, the Competition Appeal Tribunal must first decide for itself whether the challenged decision is a subsidy…
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| 26 Feb 2026 |
Sandy Park Farm Partnership v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Ors
[2026] EWHC 422 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a challenge under section 288 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the court reviews legality, not planning merits. Planning policy must be…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 73 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For a certificate of appropriate alternative development, the cancellation assumption does not exclude real-world facts which were unknown at the valuation…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 373 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where protesters are unidentified, the court should ordinarily use alternative service capable of bringing proceedings to their attention. Dispensing with…
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| 5 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 211 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Costs payable by an unsuccessful tenderer in procurement proceedings remain discretionary. An interested party does not obtain costs merely because it won the…
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| 15 Jan 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 10 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
In determining a certificate of appropriate alternative development, the Tribunal must assess a defined hypothetical planning application on its own merits…
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| 15 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 61 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application to lift an automatic suspension in a public procurement, the court should apply the American Cyanamid test. The dissatisfied tenderer bears…
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| 15 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 49 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An alleged disposition of a beneficial interest in land requires clear evidence of an immediate intention to relinquish the interest. Communications forming…
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| 21 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3054 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court has jurisdiction under Insolvency Act 1986 section 108(1) to appoint an additional liquidator where an existing liquidator is affected by an actual…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, DLA Piper UK LLP: Needham & James.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which DLA Piper UK 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 DLA Piper UK LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.