Law firm

Harris Fowler

Harris Fowler is named as solicitors in at least 14 UK judgments from 2005 to 2026, most often in professional discipline and regulation and employment.

14
judgments
4
in the last five years
7
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Professional discipline and regulation2
  • Employment2
  • Personal injury2
  • Public and administrative law1
  • Clinical negligence1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)7
  • High Court7

Counsel most often instructed

  • Timothy Grice4

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20250
  • 20242
  • 20231
  • 20220
  • 20210
  • 20201
  • 20190
  • 20180
  • 20170
  • 20160
  • 20150
  • 20141
  • 20130
  • 20120
  • 20112
  • 20101
  • 20091
  • 20081
  • 20071

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Harris Fowler acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
27 Jun 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 835 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court should decide a disputed factual issue by examining and evaluating the evidence. It may resort to the burden of proof only where that process leaves it…
13
25 Feb 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 136 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When a party seeks permission to rely on a replacement expert instructed for proceedings, the court may condition permission on disclosure of the earlier…
11
9 Feb 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 53 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A costs judge assessing costs on the standard basis must give effect to the costs order and cannot vary or rescind it. The judge may nevertheless consider all…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
11 Jun 2024
[2024] EWHC 1431 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A driver owes other highway users the care reasonably expected of a competent driver. Because a motor vehicle has substantially greater potential to cause…
22 Jan 2024
[2024] EWHC 119 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Permission to amend a pleading on the first day of trial remains a discretionary case-management decision. The lateness of an amendment and the absence of a…
1 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 2683 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An employer may be liable in negligence where an employee is required to undertake work at height using an unsafe system. Where the task presents an obvious…
16 Oct 2020
[2020] EWHC 2759 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, foreseeable risk of injury must be assessed in the relevant occupational context, including the…
13 Jun 2014
[2014] EWHC 1960 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An appellate court should interfere with a case-management decision only where the lower court was wrong in principle or the decision was outside the range of…
2
25 Feb 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 136 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When a party seeks permission to rely on a replacement expert instructed for proceedings, the court may condition permission on disclosure of the earlier…
11
9 Feb 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 53 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A costs judge assessing costs on the standard basis must give effect to the costs order and cannot vary or rescind it. The judge may nevertheless consider all…
4
12 Jun 2008
[2008] EWHC 2343 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In assessing compliance with workplace safety duties, the relevant question is not simply how an individual accident could have been avoided. The court must…
27 Jun 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 835 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court should decide a disputed factual issue by examining and evaluating the evidence. It may resort to the burden of proof only where that process leaves it…
13
30 Dec 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 1659 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Regulation 12(3), a workplace floor or traffic route breaches the statutory duty where it contains an obstruction which may cause a person to fall and it…
1
17 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 1014 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In assessing negligence, the standard of care is objective and relates to the activity undertaken, rather than the defendant’s personal category or mistaken…

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