Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Freshfields LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 12 Apr 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 816 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Discontinuance and an offer to pay indemnity costs do not necessarily end the court’s jurisdiction over costs. Disputed entitlement, outstanding application…
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83 |
| 1 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 37 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether negotiations produced a binding contract must be assessed objectively by reference to the whole course of dealings, including subsequent…
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62 |
| 28 Jul 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 819 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For inventive step, the person skilled in the art is not necessarily an invariant individual or team. The relevant art depends on the question being asked. In…
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50 |
| 2 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1716 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judicial review is ordinarily a remedy of last resort. A statutory tax appeal on the facts and law normally provides a suitable alternative remedy, including…
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42 |
| 20 Dec 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1743 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court will interfere with a first-instance case-management discretion only for legal error, failure to consider relevant matters, consideration of…
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37 |
| 20 Aug 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 998 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where related commercial agreements contain different jurisdiction clauses, their scope depends on a commercially minded construction of the agreements as a…
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31 |
| 2 Dec 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 71 · Supreme Court
A director’s fiduciary power must be exercised only for its proper purposes. The purpose is inferred from the provision’s terms, effect, mischief and business…
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29 |
| 6 Nov 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1161 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 may compromise or rearrange rights between a company and its creditors in their capacity as…
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29 |
| 18 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1339 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The scope of a registered Community design is assessed by the overall impression it produces on an informed user, taking account of the designer’s freedom. The…
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25 |
| 3 Apr 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 474 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Legal advice privilege protects confidential communications between a client and its legal advisers, and evidence of their contents. It does not protect an…
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25 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2514 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment is appropriate where the evidence and submissions permit a proper decision on a short point of law or construction, and the defendant has no…
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| 13 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2165 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An online marketplace operator is not liable for copyright infringement merely because users upload and view protected material. Under the Copyright, Designs…
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| 15 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1790 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, expert evidence must be reasonably required to resolve the proceedings. Market-practice evidence may assist contractual…
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| 24 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1563 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court may sanction a creditor scheme where the statutory requirements and formalities are satisfied, the class has been fairly represented, the scheme is…
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| 8 Jun 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 212 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
Whether an accounting treatment reflects a transaction’s substance and economic reality is an objective, context-sensitive inquiry. Contemporaneous views may…
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| 19 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1467 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a scheme of arrangement, the court need only identify any obvious jurisdictional impediment. It must be satisfied that the company…
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| 12 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 581 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The court retains an inherent power to make a further order requiring examination where an order under CPR Part 71 was validly served within the jurisdiction…
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| 12 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 580 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a stage 2 equal-value hearing under the Equality Act 2010, “work” is the work required by the wage/work bargain. The analysis is not confined to a worker’s…
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| 7 Apr 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 142 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
For the purposes of intra-group trade transfers, statutory ring-fencing of oil-related activities must be taken into account when identifying the trade…
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| 24 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 677 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An amendment is consequential only where it responds to an identifiable change or alteration in the opposing case. It is insufficient that the amendment also…
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| 10 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 517 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A constitutive residence scheme under Article 18.1 of the Withdrawal Agreement requires both qualifying residence and a successful application. Residence…
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| 9 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 522 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under CPR Practice Direction 57AD, paragraph 17, the court may act where there may have been a failure adequately to comply with an order for Extended…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Freshfields LLP: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Freshfields 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 Freshfields LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.