Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Gateley Legal acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 23 · Supreme Court
Where a company suffers loss through wrongdoing by its directors, their conduct and knowledge are not attributed to the company so as to defeat its claim…
|
58 |
| 18 Jan 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 2 · Supreme Court
A commercial lease certificate stated to be “conclusive” as to service charges may, on its proper construction, determine the amount payable on the payment…
|
38 |
| 15 May 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 488 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where substantive proceedings have fallen away but costs remain disputed, the court may determine costs by a summary assessment of the likely merits. It need…
|
32 |
| 27 May 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 493 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires a decision-maker to establish whether a proposal accords with the development plan as a…
|
23 |
| 17 Mar 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 168 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under paragraph 49 of the National Planning Policy Framework, relevant policies “for the supply of housing” are policies affecting housing supply. They include…
|
23 |
| 28 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 613 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A post-termination non-dealing covenant must be construed objectively in its commercial and factual setting. A construction that makes the covenant futile…
|
21 |
| 25 Aug 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 1000 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The natural and ordinary meaning of a social-media post depends on the objective impression made on the ordinary reasonable reader in its particular medium and…
|
21 |
| 1 Jun 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1524 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An interim injunction enforcing a restraint which will expire before judgment ordinarily requires the claimant to show that it is likely to succeed at trial. A…
|
18 |
| 28 Jun 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 43 · Supreme Court
When damages for breach of contract are assessed, a benefit is brought into account only if it was caused by the breach or by a successful act of mitigation.…
|
18 |
| 6 Apr 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 16 · Supreme Court
For the general statutory definition of a subsidiary, membership of a company ordinarily depends on entry in its register of members. Provisions attributing…
|
12 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2477 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An extension of time is assessed by considering the seriousness of the breach, the reason for it and all the circumstances. A very late amendment requires a…
|
|
| 23 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1873 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under GAFTA Form 48 clause 20, “unforeseeable” means a risk whose probability, assessed when the contract is made, is so remote that it is negligible in…
|
|
| 23 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 949 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether a communication acknowledges a claim under section 29(5) of the Limitation Act 1980 is determined objectively. The document must be read as a whole and…
|
|
| 18 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1499 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Amendments to pleadings are governed by the ordinary overriding-objective discretion unless the alleged illegality is manifest or obvious. That expression…
|
|
| 8 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1069 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Permission to appeal was refused. A challenge to the exercise of the broad discretion to make a building liability order must identify an error of law…
|
|
| 1 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 789 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
The High Court may make a building liability order before the original company’s relevant liability has been finally established. The order is available where…
|
1 |
| 16 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 609 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A professional adviser providing information for a lending decision is responsible for losses representing the fruition of the risks against which the advice…
|
|
| 23 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 153 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A party challenging an expert determination for manifest error must show more than a wrong or arguable contractual interpretation. Unless the contract provides…
|
|
| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 388 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission is required to withdraw a clear admission, but the court must first determine whether the pleading contains an admission at all. Pleadings must be…
|
|
| 19 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 387 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where an interim application has been compromised and only costs remain, the court should ordinarily avoid deciding the underlying merits. Parties may…
|
1 |
| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 21 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For TUPE, economic activity has the same meaning as in EU competition law because both regimes regulate aspects of the single market. It means offering goods…
|
|
| 21 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3078 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Actual authority is assessed objectively from the principal’s manifestation of assent, viewed in context. In a family-owned company, seniority and…
|
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Gateley Legal: HBJ Gateley Wareing LLP, Gateley Wareing, Shaw & Croft, Holmes Hardingham.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Gateley Legal 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 Gateley Legal. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.