Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases DWF acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 339 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On summary judgment, a claimant must show a realistic, rather than fanciful, prospect of success. The case must carry some degree of conviction and be more…
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729 |
| 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 |
| 13 Dec 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1654 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Once civil proceedings are underway, disputes about disclosure and inspection are governed primarily by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, not by the Data…
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25 |
| 16 Jun 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 1447 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A scheme of arrangement under section 425 of the Companies Act 1985 need not alter creditors’ existing rights against the company. It is sufficient that its…
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19 |
| 23 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 175 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When deciding whether non-disclosure justifies discharging a without-notice injunction, the overriding consideration is the interests of justice. The court…
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17 |
| 9 Nov 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1419 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A trade mark proprietor who elects for an account of profits following infringement through failure to give the required notice of repackaging is entitled to a…
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16 |
| 18 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 1837 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A person under police investigation ordinarily has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the fact of the investigation. A search under warrant does not…
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16 |
| 20 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1396 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Estoppel by convention may arise where parties to a contract communicate and act upon a shared assumption about fact or law, even without a further concluded…
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15 |
| 26 Feb 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 348 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A statutory derivative claim under Chapter 1 of Part 11 of the Companies Act 2006 is an exclusive code only for claims brought by a member of the company in…
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15 |
| 20 May 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 33 · Supreme Court
At common law, liability for mesothelioma under the Fairchild rule remains proportionate to each wrongdoer’s contribution to the overall risk. Section 3 of the…
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14 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 18 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 1095 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A highway authority which positively creates or materially contributes to a highway danger owes road users a duty to take reasonable care. The duty may extend…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2020 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An employer’s duty to take reasonable care extends to work-related travel, but liability depends on a risk being reasonably foreseeable and sufficiently…
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| 21 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1845 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In a procurement challenge, early specific disclosure is subject to a low but real threshold. The court should examine the pleaded case for relevance…
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| 16 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1805 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A below-threshold public contract with cross-border interest remains subject to Treaty principles of non-discrimination, equal treatment and transparency. The…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1564 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When reviewing an extension of pre-charge bail, the magistrates’ task is supervisory and evaluative. They must assess, on the material then available, whether…
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| 16 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1468 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Valid service of a bankruptcy petition is the foundation of the court’s adjudicatory jurisdiction. The statutory jurisdictional requirements for making a…
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| 11 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1429 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A statement of case must identify the facts, duties, breaches, causation and loss relied on against each defendant. General allegations of statutory…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1245 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976, services dependency is assessed by identifying the services the deceased would have provided, translating them into a…
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| 8 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1088 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Permission to amend a pleading is discretionary and must be determined under the overriding objective. A very late amendment which threatens a fixed trial date…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1025 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a historic asbestos-exposure claim, the claimant must prove exposure on the balance of probabilities. The special causation rule in Fairchild v Glenhaven…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1020 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
The iniquity exception to legal professional privilege applies where conduct amounts to fraud or equivalent underhand conduct which abuses the professional…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1019 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Applications to lift the automatic suspension under section 102(2) of the Procurement Act 2023 require a single factual assessment balancing the public…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, DWF: Ricksons, Davies Wallis Foyster.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which DWF 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 DWF. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.