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Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Apr 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 20 · Supreme Court
Article 4 of the Recast Brussels Regulation confers mandatory jurisdiction over a domiciled defendant. Any implied abuse exception must be construed narrowly.…
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116 |
| 13 Jul 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 34 · Supreme Court
A court has no inherent common law power to replace public interest immunity with a closed material procedure in an ordinary civil claim. Such a procedure…
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111 |
| 15 Jan 2021 |
[2021] UKSC 1 · Supreme Court
Business interruption cover must be construed objectively and as a coherent whole. A radius-limited disease clause covers cases of disease occurring within the…
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63 |
| 21 Nov 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 2887 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a sophisticated commercial financing transaction, an arranger’s provision of information did not imply that it knew of no facts which might make that…
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47 |
| 22 Nov 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2699 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A notification of circumstances under a professional indemnity policy must be construed objectively in its documentary and commercial context. A notice…
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38 |
| 29 Apr 2005 |
[2005] EWHC 625 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Norwich Pharmacal relief against an innocent third party is a remedy of last resort. The applicant must show an arguable wrong, a genuine need for information…
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36 |
| 20 Jan 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 6 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A judge is automatically disqualified where a fair-minded and informed observer, having considered all relevant circumstances, would conclude that there is a…
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36 |
| 5 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company is not a quasi-partnership merely because it is a successful family business. Equitable constraints on legal shareholder rights require a mutual…
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35 |
| 15 May 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 819 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should not replace a trial judge’s determination of a defamatory statement’s single meaning merely because it prefers another reasonably…
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31 |
| 24 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 94 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court's preference for a different factual conclusion does not justify reversing a trial judge. The relevant question is whether the decision was…
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29 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2107 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A stay pending an intended appeal is discretionary and fact-sensitive. The court must weigh the risk of injustice in granting or refusing it, the effect of…
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| 4 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2047 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
For an urgent application supporting arbitration, the court may grant short-term relief under the Arbitration Act 1996 where the tribunal or emergency…
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| 4 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 1040 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Planning policy is interpreted as a practical whole, in its policy and factual context. It is not construed as a statute or contract. The court distinguishes…
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| 29 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 993 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should be slow to interfere with a specialist tribunal’s case-management decision to permit an amendment where the legal issue is novel…
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| 23 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2044 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to renew an interim injunction against persons unknown, the court should consider whether anything material has changed, while ensuring…
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| 14 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1944 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In complex investor litigation using a split trial, sample claimants should provide broad coverage of materially different reliance cases without reproducing…
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| 7 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1705 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In reviewing a general immigration policy decision, the court gives appropriate respect to the decision-maker’s evaluative judgment, particularly where the…
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| 6 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1685 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a policy excludes damage directly or indirectly occasioned by, happening through, or in consequence of war, the causal link need not be proximate. War…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1556 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In determining an application for development consent where no national policy statement has effect, the Secretary of State must apply the statutory framework…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1500 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A former director remains subject to the statutory continuing duty in Companies Act 2006 s 170(2)(a) concerning property, information or opportunities known to…
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| 22 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1532 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Section 12(7) of the State Immunity Act 1978 excludes only a true action in rem, commenced by service on the res, such as an Admiralty action against a ship or…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1182 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966, compensation for ancillary mining rights is assessed as fair and reasonable between a willing…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, HSF LLP, HSF Kramer LLP.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer 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 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.