Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Hamlins LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 5 Mar 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 545 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Permission to serve a foreign defendant outside the jurisdiction may be maintained where the claim concerns a real and substantial tort in England and Wales…
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31 |
| 16 Jul 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 2053 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
On an assessment of remedies following default judgment in libel, the court will ordinarily proceed on the claimant’s unchallenged pleaded case. It need not…
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27 |
| 19 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3547 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A contributor to a defamatory publication is liable where it knowingly authorises publication of its own defamatory statement in the relevant context. It is…
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23 |
| 19 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3494 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The natural and ordinary meaning of allegedly defamatory words is the single meaning conveyed to the ordinary reasonable reader of the publication as a whole.…
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22 |
| 17 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 1291 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Damages for misuse of private information may compensate both the claimant’s distress and the loss of control over private information. They are compensatory…
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21 |
| 5 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 2606 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
For statutory qualified privilege under the Defamation Act 1996, an extract from a court document may be a summary rather than a verbatim copy. Fairness and…
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13 |
| 4 Nov 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 2947 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In determining meaning at a libel preliminary issue, the court must assess objectively the broad impression conveyed by the publication to the ordinary…
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8 |
| 18 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 588 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A foreign judgment can support issue estoppel in England only if it satisfies the English requirements and would also be treated as res judicata in the foreign…
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7 |
| 27 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Limitation Act 1980, time is postponed for deliberate concealment only where the concealed facts are essential to plead the causes of action actually…
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7 |
| 16 Apr 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 677 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Editorial discretion cannot make an interference with privacy lawful unless publication can be justified logically and rationally by the public interest…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2453 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A terminal dilapidations claim is assessed first by the common-law cost of work needed to restore the covenanted condition, subject to mitigation and…
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| 14 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2170 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An application to restrain advertisement of a winding-up petition requires a genuine and substantial dispute or a genuine and serious cross-claim exceeding the…
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| 15 Jul 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 232 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A service-charge clause focused on management does not ordinarily authorise recovery of litigation costs. The absence of an express reference to legal costs is…
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1 |
| 15 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 45 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Summary judgment is unsuitable where the parties’ entitlement to rely on earlier judgments raises difficult questions about privity, admissibility, estoppel…
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| 21 Dec 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 3379 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Forfeiture requires a material breach of covenant. A lease right of access limited to purposes connected with the lease and the landlord’s interest in the land…
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3 |
| 22 Aug 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2211 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An interim proprietary injunction must protect the particular property said to be subject to the claimant’s proprietary or specific-performance claim. It…
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| 13 Jul 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2438 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Permission for judicial review should be granted where the proposed grounds are properly arguable and it cannot be shown that the outcome would highly likely…
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| 8 Jun 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1394 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When a publication claim is struck out as statute-barred, the publication may still remain relevant to an underlying unlawful information-gathering claim. It…
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| 27 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Limitation Act 1980, time is postponed for deliberate concealment only where the concealed facts are essential to plead the causes of action actually…
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7 |
| 19 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 76 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Part 36 is a self-contained procedural code. An offer accepted after the relevant period may be accepted subject to the court determining liability for costs…
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| 11 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 760 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A settlement offer is construed objectively from its wording and the relevant factual matrix. Where an offer refers to payment of the costs of the litigation…
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| 19 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3547 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A contributor to a defamatory publication is liable where it knowingly authorises publication of its own defamatory statement in the relevant context. It is…
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23 |
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Hamlins 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 Hamlins LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.