Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Fieldfisher acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 27 Mar 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 15 · Supreme Court
Obviousness under section 3 of the Patents Act 1977 requires a fact-specific assessment of all relevant circumstances. Uninventive work which the skilled…
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79 |
| 2 Aug 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 57 · Supreme Court
A court must not impose or maintain a condition on an appeal if the condition would probably prevent the appellant from pursuing it. The appellant bears the…
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45 |
| 12 Apr 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 397 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A second appeal requires more than an arguable factual challenge or a real prospect of success. Permission is available only where the appeal raises an…
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39 |
| 22 May 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 31 · Supreme Court
Breach of confidence is founded on conscience. A person who has neither acquired a claimant’s trade secrets nor knows that they are being misused is not…
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31 |
| 14 Mar 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 468 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Apparent bias is determined by asking whether, after ascertaining all relevant circumstances, a fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was…
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30 |
| 27 Jul 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 1853 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A defendant relying on section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013 must show that the statement concerned a matter of public interest and that the defendant…
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30 |
| 15 Dec 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1735 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employee may prepare to compete with an employer after leaving, provided the employee complies with the duties arising from the particular employment…
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26 |
| 24 Sep 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2456 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A final quia timet injunction requires a strong probability that, without restraint, the defendant will infringe the claimant’s rights. The anticipated harm…
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26 |
| 28 Apr 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 319 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Indicative sanctions guidance which is expressly non-prescriptive does not create a tariff or confine a panel to its examples. A professional disciplinary…
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25 |
| 19 Sep 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2115 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual relationship falling short of partnership may contain sufficient elements of joint venture to impose mutual duties of good faith. The contract…
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22 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2509 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Choice of law must be determined issue by issue. Where the Rome Regulations apply, their scope is determined autonomously; describing a claim or remedy as…
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| 17 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2355 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For service out of jurisdiction, a claimant must establish a serious issue to be tried, an applicable gateway, that England is the proper place, and that…
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| 9 Sep 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 348 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
Under paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978, the host employer need not exercise direction or control…
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| 4 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2292 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A director breaches the duty to promote a company’s success where he causes it to engage a related business on undisclosed and commercially disadvantageous…
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| 10 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 874 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a professionally drafted confidentiality agreement, the expression public domain ordinarily bears its established legal meaning unless the contractual…
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| 29 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1617 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The construction of a court order is a single coherent process. The court considers the language of the order in the circumstances known to it and the parties…
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| 25 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 668 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Likelihood of confusion in trade mark infringement is a global assessment, not an algorithm. A common element with low distinctiveness, particularly a…
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1 |
| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 658 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a party’s pleaded case is that repayment automatically extinguished the claimant’s loss, it cannot introduce at closing a different case based on the…
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 959 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In civil proceedings alleging money laundering, the Anwoir test applies in full. Where the precise predicate offence is not identified, the circumstances in…
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| 16 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 815 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For an individual voluntary arrangement to be approved, the debtor must make full and frank disclosure of relevant matters and creditors must be treated in…
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| 31 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 768 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A final costs order made after an interlocutory or case-management decision remains final for the purposes of reconsideration. Under CPR r. 3.1(7), variation…
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| 20 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 555 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A director breaches his duties where he uses corporate powers to pursue a personal objective that is contrary to the company’s agreed commercial interests…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Fieldfisher: HEATONS LLP.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Fieldfisher 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 Fieldfisher. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.