Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases HCR Law acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 9 May 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1153 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For rectification based on common mistake, the parties’ continuing intention is determined objectively from their communications and the surrounding context. A…
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26 |
| 17 Mar 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 227 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An informal family arrangement permitting occupation and farming without an express time limit does not, without more, create an irrevocable entitlement. For…
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16 |
| 18 May 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 641 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employer’s contractual disciplinary decision to dismiss an employee does not itself determine a civil right for the purposes of Article 6. It asserts or…
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13 |
| 8 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3250 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A properly executed will, prepared by a solicitor and read to a capable testator, ordinarily attracts a very strong inference that it records the testator’s…
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13 |
| 17 Feb 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 283 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application to enforce an adjudicator’s decision, summary judgment should be refused where a defence has a real, although weak, prospect of success and…
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12 |
| 12 Sep 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 2332 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
For the purposes of construction adjudication, a dispute generally arises when a claim or assertion is expressly or implicitly challenged. A dispute may…
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12 |
| 8 Apr 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 298 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the statutory concept of the effective date of termination, summary dismissal takes effect when the employer brings the employment relationship to an end…
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8 |
| 10 May 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 588 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A purported Part 36 offer must satisfy every mandatory requirement of the rule. An expressed intention to comply can resolve ambiguity, but cannot supply an…
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7 |
| 25 Feb 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 154 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under the Duomatic principle, corporate formalities may be dispensed with only where every shareholder entitled to attend and vote gives unqualified assent to…
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6 |
| 16 Mar 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 592 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When a development plan exists and its relevant policies are neither silent nor out of date, the decision-maker must determine whether the proposal accords…
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6 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 1212 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A non-party is directly affected for the purposes of CPR r 40.9 where an order is prima facie capable of materially and adversely affecting a legally…
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| 2 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1672 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an appeal from strike-out and summary judgment, a restitutionary claim for the unpaid value of services should proceed where properly pleaded facts and…
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| 18 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 641 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual purchase-price formula must be construed objectively and as a whole. Where additions are made for assets and deductions for liabilities or…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 165 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Planning policy must be interpreted objectively, by reference to its language, context and practical purpose. The meaning of a policy is a legal question, but…
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| 28 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2769 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Summary judgment may determine discrete issues, even where the wider claim will proceed to trial, provided the issue is suitable for summary determination. The…
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| 10 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2593 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In multi-party litigation, the court must identify the forum in which claims against all defendants can most suitably be tried, weighing practical convenience…
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| 8 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2120 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court will restrain presentation of a winding-up petition where the petition debt is disputed in good faith on substantial grounds. A dispute is not…
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| 19 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1099 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trustees are removed only where removal is required for the welfare of the beneficiaries as a whole or is necessary to protect the trust or its proper…
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| 14 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1175 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Private nuisance protects the utility and amenity value of land. The court must apply a structured inquiry: substantial interference, ordinary use of the…
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| 17 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EAT 55 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An Employment Tribunal considering an amendment must balance the injustice and hardship of allowing it against those of refusing it, having regard to all the…
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| 11 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 548 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the three-year “use it or lose it” period under Insolvency Act 1986, a trustee’s being “informed” of, or “becoming aware” of, a bankrupt’s interest…
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| 6 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 775 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Whether a renewable-energy project is an extension of an existing generating station for nationally significant infrastructure purposes is principally a…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, HCR Law: Wright Hassall LLP, Harrison Clark LLP, Jordans, Rickerbys, Shawcross & Co.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which HCR Law 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 HCR Law. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.