Law firm

DMH Stallard LLP

DMH Stallard LLP is named as solicitors in at least 155 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in public and administrative law and planning and environment.

155
judgments
26
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
43
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law44
  • Planning and environment29
  • Commercial disputes29
  • Real estate24
  • Family and children18
  • Cross-border disputes5
  • Intellectual property5
  • Construction and engineering5

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)42
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)1
  • High Court107
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • Jonathan Clay5
  • Charles George4
  • Edward Denehan4
  • Peter Knox4
  • Adrian Pay3
  • Clive Sheldon3
  • Nicholas Trompeter3
  • Philip Petchey3

Judgments by year

  • 20266
  • 20255
  • 20247
  • 20234
  • 20224
  • 20212
  • 20203
  • 20193
  • 20185
  • 20171
  • 20165
  • 20156
  • 20146
  • 20136
  • 201210
  • 20119
  • 201010
  • 200910
  • 200812
  • 20076

Cases later courts cite most

Cases DMH Stallard LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
27 Jan 2006
[2006] EWHC 47 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A freely negotiated non-exclusive English jurisdiction clause, coupled with English law, ordinarily gives a strong prima facie basis for retaining proceedings…
18
17 Dec 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 1740 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of regulation 8(2), a deficiency in an original homelessness decision is not confined to a legal or procedural error. It includes an important…
16
14 Nov 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1548 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An allegation is an act extending over a period where linked incidents evidence an ongoing discriminatory situation or continuing state of affairs. A policy…
16
7 Jul 2004
[2004] EWHC 1566 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A jurisdiction agreement under article 23(1) of the Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 gives the chosen court jurisdiction over contractual claims and…
15
28 Mar 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 360 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Equitable tracing follows the value inherent in misappropriated property through causally and transactionally linked substitutions. The court may infer a chain…
10
14 Jun 2011
[2011] EWHC 1473 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Age assessment must be conducted holistically. A decision-maker cannot determine age solely from physical appearance or demeanour. Relevant matters include the…
8
12 Oct 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 1295 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A material change of use may result from changes in the intensity and overall character of a mixed use, although its generic components remain unchanged. The…
7
27 Aug 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 1170 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When a local authority decides that a person must leave an established home for nursing accommodation, a professional assessment of nursing needs is only one…
7
8 Oct 2019
[2019] EWHC 2632 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An officer’s report must be read as a whole. Planning policies may require an overall judgment which weighs beneficial and adverse effects, rather than…
6
1 Mar 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 193 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual description of two companies under a shared misnomer does not establish joint liability where the agreement, read with the parties’ previous…
5

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
29 Jun 2026
[2026] UKUT 238 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Under the receipts and expenditure method, the tenant’s share of the divisible balance is a fact-sensitive valuation judgment; no single method governs. The…
6 Feb 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 56 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An uncompleted, specifically enforceable contract for the sale of land can confer a beneficial interest on the purchaser as between the contracting parties…
1
26 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 88 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A traffic authority may prohibit a class of vehicles where there is sufficient evidence that the class contributes to highway damage or would impede…
12 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 26 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An experimental traffic order must identify a genuine experiment and explain its purpose. The statement of reasons must describe the nature of the experiment…
29 Aug 2025
[2025] EWHC 2222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Applications to extend time for service of a claim form must be justified against the defendant’s right to be sued within the claim form’s initial validity and…
22 Aug 2025
[2025] EWHC 2212 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A guarantee securing a company’s contractual obligations may operate alongside a profit-and-loss sharing arrangement. Its purpose and limits must be determined…
10 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1425 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Judgments determining succession to an estate are generally outside the scope of registration under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933.…
18 Dec 2024
[2024] EWHC 3302 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a challenge under Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the court must identify a genuine legal error in the decision-maker’s treatment of planning…
9 Dec 2024
[2024] EWHC 3128 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A voluntary disposition may be rescinded for a sufficiently serious mistake about its tax consequences. The mistake must be distinct and causative, and relief…
12 Nov 2024
[2024] EWHC 3544 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual costs indemnities are construed by reference to their precise wording. A requirement that costs be properly incurred concerns the circumstances in…
15 Oct 2024
[2024] EWHC 2552 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In trade mark exhaustion disputes, the alleged infringer ordinarily bears the burden of proving proprietor consent. That burden may be adjusted where there is…
14 Oct 2024
[2024] EWHC 2484 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A professionally drafted contract referring to a freehold title by its single registered title number ordinarily transfers the whole of that title. Commercial…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, DMH Stallard LLP: DMH, Ross & Craig, Awb Partnership, Courts & Co, Griffith Smith, Callaghans, Rawlinson Butler LLP.

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which DMH Stallard 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 DMH Stallard LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.