Law firm

GT Stewart Solicitors

GT Stewart Solicitors is named as solicitors in at least 159 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in public and administrative law and crime.

159
judgments
53
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
56
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law68
  • Crime44
  • Family and children39
  • Extradition22
  • Housing18
  • Civil liberties and human rights12
  • Real estate8
  • Social welfare and education6

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)33
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)23
  • High Court100
  • Upper Tribunal1

Counsel most often instructed

  • R de Mello5
  • Toby Vanhegan5
  • Anneli Robins4
  • Justin Bates4
  • Alex Verdan3
  • Chris Barnes3
  • Lee Sergent3
  • Louisa Collins3

Judgments by year

  • 20267
  • 202519
  • 202412
  • 20235
  • 202210
  • 202110
  • 202011
  • 20198
  • 201811
  • 20179
  • 201610
  • 20159
  • 20147
  • 20132
  • 20125
  • 20115
  • 20102
  • 20096
  • 20082
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases GT Stewart Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
17 Oct 2019
[2019] EWHC 2710 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Post-tariff detention of an indeterminate-sentence prisoner must be justified by a substantial or more than minimal risk of reoffending capable of causing…
30
30 Oct 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 1186 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a local authority seeks a civil injunction which is substantially identical to an anti-social behaviour order, the court should ordinarily decline relief…
23
13 Jan 2009
[2009] EWHC 12 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A conditional fee agreement may validly be retrospective, including as to a success fee, unless statute or public policy prevents it. Its reasonableness…
10
22 May 2020
[2020] EWHC 1257 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal under section 27(4) of the Extradition Act 2003 on fresh evidence requires an objective reappraisal within the first-instance framework. The…
6
27 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 2008 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The duty under section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 is immediate, non-deferrable and unqualified. When deciding whether to grant a mandatory order for…
5
2 Dec 2021
[2021] EWHC 3257 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When an indeterminate foreign national prisoner liable to deportation seeks open conditions, the Parole Board must apply the very low risk of abscond test and…
4
4 Jun 2009
[2009] EWHC 2259 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 26(4) of the Extradition Act 2003, an extradition appeal notice must be filed and served within the statutory seven-day period. The court cannot…
4
17 May 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 670 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A local housing authority has no power to extend the mandatory 21-day period for requesting a review under section 107E of the Housing Act 1985. The…
4
26 Jul 2018
[2018] EWCA Civ 1712 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a court has determined that a possession order against a disabled tenant is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, the tenant cannot…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
3 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1665 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Housing allocation policies must be followed unless there is a good reason to depart from them, and they should be read practically and flexibly. A…
6 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 214 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an extradition appeal under the Extradition Act 2003, the appellate court must decide whether the district judge was wrong, including whether the overall…
15 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 54 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An Article 8 ECHR challenge to extradition will generally succeed only where the impact on family life is exceptionally severe. Whether that threshold is met…
12 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3271 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A communication from a local housing authority is not a reviewable decision merely because it records the authority’s understanding of a claimant’s historical…
5 Dec 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1580 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For intentional homelessness, “deliberately” refers to the act or omission causing the loss of accommodation. The applicant need not have intended, or…
7 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 2890 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A conviction warrant under Extradition Act 2003 must contain particulars sufficient to identify the convictions and sentence for which extradition is sought. A…
24 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2745 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Local housing authorities have a wide discretion when formulating and operating housing allocation schemes, subject to statutory requirements and the ordinary…
7 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2544 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A judge must decide a case within the framework of the parties’ pleaded issues. The judge may accept part of a witness’s evidence and reject the remainder, but…
8 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1743 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For section 20 of the Extradition Act 2003, a person convicted in involuntary absence is entitled to a retrial only where the procedure provides, in substance…
3 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1635 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For extradition following a conviction in absence, deliberate absence requires proof that the person knew, or must properly be taken to have known, that…
9 May 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 609 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether accommodation is reasonable for a homeless applicant to continue occupying is fact-sensitive. Temporary accommodation, including a hotel room, is not…
2 May 2025
[2025] EWHC 1049 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an extradition appeal under Article 8, the appellate court reviews whether the proportionality decision was wrong. If a material flaw is identified, it must…

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