Law firm

Edwin Coe LLP

Edwin Coe LLP is named as solicitors in at least 180 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and insurance and reinsurance.

180
judgments
42
in the last five years
9
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
35
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes56
  • Insurance and reinsurance29
  • Insolvency and restructuring23
  • Company and partnership18
  • Intellectual property18
  • Public and administrative law14
  • Trusts, wills and private client12
  • Professional liability9

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Privy Council7
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)35
  • High Court135
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal1

Counsel most often instructed

  • Ben Elkington13
  • Cyril Kinsky7
  • James Price6
  • Michael Edenborough6
  • William Bennett6
  • Alastair Wilson5
  • Andrew Butler5
  • Edward Francis5

Judgments by year

  • 20262
  • 20258
  • 202413
  • 202311
  • 20228
  • 20215
  • 20205
  • 201911
  • 20182
  • 20177
  • 20166
  • 201512
  • 20144
  • 201310
  • 201213
  • 20117
  • 201011
  • 200916
  • 20089
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Edwin Coe LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
1 Feb 2013
[2013] EWHC 111 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A duty of honest performance may be implied into a commercial contract through ordinary principles of construction and implication. Its content depends on the…
60
21 Mar 2012
[2012] UKSC 11 · Supreme Court
The Reynolds public interest defence protects a defamatory publication where the information was of real public interest and the publisher acted responsibly in…
23
11 Feb 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 59 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A document is “mentioned” for the purposes of CPR 31.14 when the statement makes a direct or specific allusion to it. The test is broad and does not require…
19
7 Feb 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 57 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A compromise is not vitiated by common mistake merely because the parties materially miscalculate entitlement. The mistake must make the subject matter of the…
14
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…
12
25 Feb 2022
[2022] EWHC 409 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A non-damage denial of access clause can extend to disease where its wording covers a danger within a specified radius. The radius requires a local…
10
9 Nov 2004
[2004] EWHC 2547 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An alleged oral joint venture agreement is not binding where the parties remain in negotiation about essential financial, management, funding and security…
9
19 Oct 2010
[2010] EWHC 2583 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In commercial insurance, a statement made before renewal may be impliedly repeated at renewal where it concerns a material feature of the risk and remains…
9
21 Jul 2005
[2005] EWHC 1621 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A solvent insurer’s scheme of arrangement must be assessed against the realistic alternative of continuing solvent run-off where liquidation is not a realistic…
8
7 Oct 2016
[2016] EWCA Civ 989 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An unexercised contractual right to draw or crystallise benefits under a private pension is not a payment in the nature of income for the purposes of section…
7

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
24 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1906 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A member may continue a statutory derivative claim where the company faces a prima facie case of breach and a sufficient threat of future harm; actual…
22 Apr 2026
[2026] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
Under a business interruption policy, a savings clause referring to charges or expenses which cease or reduce is concerned with the economic burden borne by…
1 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3134 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Access to a company’s register of members may be refused only where the stated purpose is not proper. The court must identify the requester’s purpose and…
9 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2581 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
For defective building work, damages are generally assessed by the reasonable cost of repair or reinstatement. Demolition and rebuilding is an exceptional…
30 Sep 2025
[2025] UKPC 48 · Privy Council
For fair value under the Companies Act (2016 revision), the court may consider transaction price, market price, comparable-company valuation and discounted…
1
24 Jul 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 946 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For variant use under Trade Marks Act 1994, the comparison asks whether differences between the mark as registered and the mark as used alter its distinctive…
1
25 Jun 2025
[2025] UKPC 29 · Privy Council
Under a price-fluctuation clause incorporating FIDIC Conditions, a contractor that has not complied with the contractual notice and record-keeping process may…
7 Apr 2025
[2025] EWHC 823 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a practitioner’s statutory appeal, the High Court must conduct an appellate rehearing and decide whether the Tribunal’s decision is wrong or unjust because…
6 Feb 2025
[2025] UKPC 6 · Privy Council
Where a contract makes compliance with a verification process essential to payment, removal of goods without verification may amount to theft, but only if the…
12 Dec 2024
[2024] EWCA Civ 1558 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An order under section 194 of the Legal Services Act 2007 is discretionary. The court must consider the costs order it would have made without pro bono…
3
21 Nov 2024
[2024] EWHC 3210 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Indemnity costs are justified where a party conducts litigation outside the ordinary and reasonable conduct of proceedings. Strong feeling and hard-fought…
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…
5

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