Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Gowling WLG acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Jul 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 46 · Supreme Court
A judgment that a patent is valid and infringed does not prevent the defendant from relying, during an outstanding damages enquiry, on a later retrospective…
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234 |
| 22 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1062 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent claims are construed purposively through the skilled reader, who is taken to understand relevant drafting conventions and divisional applications.…
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99 |
| 28 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 92 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An asset-wide notification injunction is a modified freezing order. It requires the same objectively assessed real risk, supported by solid evidence, that…
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52 |
| 8 Feb 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 41 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Trade mark confusion is assessed globally, comparing the defendant’s actual use with notional and fair use of the registered mark. Similarity of goods or…
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46 |
| 1 Jul 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 878 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, a planning decision-maker must ordinarily decide whether a proposal accords with the…
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32 |
| 20 Apr 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 396 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court must construe a written contract by reference to its language in its documentary, factual and commercial context. It cannot use interpretation to…
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26 |
| 5 Dec 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1618 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court may grant a negative declaration where the parties are within its jurisdiction and the claimant has a real commercial reason for seeking relief. Such…
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26 |
| 24 Jan 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 20 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an international commercial contract, an arbitration or jurisdiction clause should be construed liberally. Absent clear language to the contrary, it covers…
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24 |
| 24 Oct 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 1386 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Green Belt policy, “any other harm” includes every harm relevant for planning purposes, not merely harm to the Green Belt. The decision-maker must give…
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23 |
| 21 Jun 2011 |
[2011] UKPC 17 · Privy Council
The jurisdiction under section 37(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 is judicially circumscribed but capable of incremental development. A receiver by way of…
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22 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1624 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A prior ruling that expenditure is not recoverable through a lease’s service-charge provisions does not necessarily bar a distinct claim based on a separate…
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| 20 May 2026 |
[2026] EAT 75 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Under regulation 3(2) of the Fixed-Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, less favourable treatment concerning the…
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| 6 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1047 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment is appropriate where the issue is a short point of law or construction and the court has the evidence necessary to determine it. Contractual…
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| 25 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 6 · Supreme Court
A petition alleging unfairly prejudicial conduct under sections 994 and 996 of the Companies Act 2006 is not subject to the limitation periods in sections 8 or…
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| 27 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 134 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining the meaning of a television programme, the court must assess the programme as a whole and as an audiovisual experience, from the perspective of…
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| 22 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 99 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal against a regulatory price-control decision is not a de novo rehearing. The appellate body must assess the challenged decision through the specific…
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| 10 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EAT 181 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Under Part XII of the Employment Rights Act 1996, recovery from the Secretary of State of a basic award for unfair dismissal requires an employment tribunal to…
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| 1 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2480 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court holds that mere provision of banking services or marketing support does not suffice for accessory liability: an assister must provide…
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| 8 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 846 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An RCO under section 124 of the Building Safety Act 2022 is discretionary. The FTT must consider whether making the order is just and equitable in light of the…
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2 |
| 26 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2402 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where an urgent application for interim injunctive relief must be decided on limited evidence, the court may form provisional views where the consequences of…
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| 23 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1445 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Construction of pension scheme rules is a unitary exercise. The court must consider the language used in its factual and commercial context, including…
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| 2 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 562 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a professional-negligence claim against a valuer, showing that a valuation falls outside the acceptable bracket is necessary but not sufficient for…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Gowling WLG: Lawrence Graham LLP.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Gowling WLG 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 Gowling WLG. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.