Law firm

Fladgate LLP

Fladgate LLP is named as solicitors in at least 169 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and trusts, wills and private client.

169
judgments
54
in the last five years
8
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
28
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes56
  • Trusts, wills and private client26
  • Public and administrative law22
  • Insolvency and restructuring18
  • Construction and engineering15
  • Company and partnership14
  • Real estate13
  • Planning and environment11

Courts

  • Supreme Court3
  • Privy Council5
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)28
  • High Court130
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • Francis Tregear6
  • Elizabeth Weaver5
  • Rupert Paines5
  • Andrew Onslow4
  • Jacqueline Reid4
  • Douglas Cherry3
  • John Davies3
  • Liisa Lahti3

Judgments by year

  • 202612
  • 202511
  • 202413
  • 20238
  • 202210
  • 20217
  • 202014
  • 20195
  • 20183
  • 20176
  • 20167
  • 20152
  • 20144
  • 201314
  • 20129
  • 20117
  • 20105
  • 20096
  • 20084
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Fladgate LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
31 Oct 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 1382 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compensatory libel damages address injury to reputation, vindication and distress. Their assessment is fact specific and subject to necessity and…
52
11 Mar 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 427 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should not interfere with a case-management decision where the judge applied the correct principles, considered relevant matters and…
43
21 Mar 2012
[2012] EWHC 616 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractor’s express confidentiality obligation may continue indefinitely after termination. Its enforceable scope may nevertheless permit personnel to use…
33
3 Jul 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 780 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Acceptance of a repudiatory breach requires a communication which, viewed as a whole, clearly and unequivocally conveys that the aggrieved party is treating…
18
24 Jan 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 27 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A company’s entry into insolvent liquidation does not extinguish its contractual right to refer a construction dispute to adjudication. An adjudicator…
17
17 Jun 2020
[2020] UKSC 25 · Supreme Court
A company in liquidation retains its statutory and contractual right to refer a dispute arising under a construction contract to adjudication. Insolvency…
17
8 Apr 2011
[2011] EWHC 1159 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Paragraph 105 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 permits an act by a majority of the directors, but it does not dispense with the company’s ordinary…
17
24 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 626 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contracting party commits an anticipatory repudiatory breach when its objectively assessed words or conduct clearly convey that it will not perform. Its…
15
6 Oct 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 1051 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual right to terminate for a remediable material breach does not, without clear words, exclude the common law right to accept an irremediable…
14
17 Oct 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 1436 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Without prejudice protection has two foundations. Public policy protects genuine attempts to settle an objectively existing dispute or issue. The concept of a…
11

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
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…
14 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2142 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In intellectual property proceedings, a claimant with a real prospect of financial relief should ordinarily receive an inquiry or account unless…
30 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1914 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An anti-suit injunction may restrain foreign proceedings brought in breach of an exclusive English jurisdiction clause where the claimant shows to a high…
27 Jul 2026
[2026] UKUT 281 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
On a non-disciplinary reference, the Upper Tribunal conducts supervisory review: it remits a prohibition decision only where the decision is outside the range…
26 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1585 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where an assignee brings a company’s claims against a director, the assignee takes the claims subject to the same substantive and evidential rules as the…
23 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1565 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual guarantee remains enforceable where regulatory approval is capable of being obtained retrospectively, even though approval was absent when the…
13 May 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 575 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For protection under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 to be excluded by section 28, the landlord and tenant must have a binding and mutually…
27 Apr 2026
[2026] UKUT 162 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
A reference to the Upper Tribunal is a complete rehearing, with the burden of proof on the Authority. In assessing pension-transfer advice, suitability is a…
6 Feb 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 54 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A signed reconciliation document may constitute a binding agreement on liability and quantum even where further discussions concern payment arrangements.…
1
21 Jan 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 17 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For statutory service-charge controls, a “dwelling” under section 38 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 may comprise premises let for mixed residential and…
1
19 Jan 2026
[2026] UKUT 20 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
An expert’s qualifications and awareness of the duty to the tribunal do not by themselves establish admissibility. The tribunal must assess whether the…
23 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3395 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A restructuring plan may be sanctioned under Companies Act 2006 Part 26A even where a class has approved it by proxy, if the statutory requirements and…
1

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Fladgate LLP: Fladgate Fielder.

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