Law firm

Hamilton Pratt

Hamilton Pratt is named as solicitors in at least 7 UK judgments from 2006 to 2023, most often in commercial disputes and professional liability.

7
judgments
1
in the last five years
1
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes6
  • Professional liability1
  • Media, defamation and privacy1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)1
  • High Court6

Judgments by year

  • 20260
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  • 20231
  • 20220
  • 20210
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  • 20190
  • 20180
  • 20170
  • 20160
  • 20150
  • 20141
  • 20130
  • 20123
  • 20110
  • 20101
  • 20090
  • 20080
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Hamilton Pratt acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
11 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2313 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Franchise agreements are detailed commercial contracts. Broad duties of good faith, mutual support or continued expansion will not be implied unless necessary…
4
12 Jan 2012
[2012] EWHC 21 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The grant of a declaration is discretionary. A party has no entitlement to declaratory relief as of right, even where the court has jurisdiction to make a…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
9 May 2023
[2023] EWHC 1077 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A franchise agreement may confer exclusivity even without express words to that effect, when the agreement read as a whole shows that exclusivity forms part of…
11 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2313 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Franchise agreements are detailed commercial contracts. Broad duties of good faith, mutual support or continued expansion will not be implied unless necessary…
4
20 Dec 2012
[2012] EWHC 3707 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A post-termination restraint in a franchise agreement should be construed, where the language permits, as protecting the franchisor’s legitimate goodwill…
17 Jan 2012
[2012] EWHC 30 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, r 44.3, the court must identify the successful party by considering the litigation as a whole and applying common sense to…
12 Jan 2012
[2012] EWHC 21 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The grant of a declaration is discretionary. A party has no entitlement to declaratory relief as of right, even where the court has jurisdiction to make a…
3
31 Mar 2010
[2010] EWHC 624 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A franchisor may owe a prospective franchisee a duty of care in tort where the parties have a sufficiently close relationship, loss from negligent advice is…
27 Jul 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1201 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual renewal option may be enforceable even though future performance requirements are to be proposed at renewal. Where the clause gives one party…
1

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