Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Forbes Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.
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| 6 Feb 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 50 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under public liability insurance covering bodily injury occurring during the policy period, asbestos exposure and the body’s initial defensive reactions do not…
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| 6 Mar 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 284 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On a summary judgment application, a claim may be dismissed where the available material shows that it has no real prospect of success. A claimant cannot…
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3 |
Recent cases
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| 9 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EAT 158 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An employment tribunal’s reasons must explain its resolution of the principal disputed issues and how it applied the law to its findings. Read fairly and as a…
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| 10 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EAT 39 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An appeal alleging perversity succeeds only where an overwhelming case shows that no reasonable employment tribunal, properly applying the evidence and law…
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| 10 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2500 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Processing personal data for law-enforcement purposes must be necessary and proportionate. The necessity test is strict and requires a pressing social need. A…
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2 |
| 1 Jun 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 696 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For Highways Act 1980 purposes, a local authority is a highway authority only when exercising its highway functions. A path made while exercising separate…
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2 |
| 19 Jun 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1546 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
For Highways Act 1980 section 36(2)(a) to apply, a way need not have been intended or dedicated as a highway when constructed. It is sufficient that a highway…
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| 27 Mar 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 732 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of the double-jeopardy bar under the Extradition Act 2003, the court must examine the substance of the facts said to constitute the offences…
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| 26 Jan 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 80 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
When deciding whether to admit fresh evidence on appeal, the court must give effect to the overriding objective while considering the principles in Ladd v…
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2 |
| 11 Jan 2016 |
[2016] UKUT 6 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Temporary pumping may constitute flood risk management work under section 14A(9)(g) of the Land Drainage Act 1991. The statutory expression “anything done” is…
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| 20 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 387 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Successful claimants ordinarily recover their costs from liable defendants in proportions reflecting the defendants’ substantive liability. A Part 36 offer…
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| 16 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 298 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A medical practitioner must meet the standard of a reasonably competent practitioner in the relevant field. An employer’s duty requires all reasonable steps to…
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| 21 May 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 1625 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A physiotherapist is judged by the standard of the reasonably competent physiotherapist. Evidence that rehabilitation activities may have caused or contributed…
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| 13 Jun 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 1573 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a mesothelioma claim involving alleged low-level bystander exposure, the claimant must prove exposure and causation within the ordinary framework of the…
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