Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases HF acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 26 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1390 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An expert witness’s common law immunity from civil suit for evidence does not extend to fitness-to-practise proceedings. Any immunity must be certain, absolute…
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157 |
| 20 May 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 444 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
CPR 3.1(7) is not a means by which a judge may reopen a final order, including an order approving a complete or partial settlement. It is a case-management…
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52 |
| 19 Apr 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 472 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A public consultation must be fair and permit an effective, informed response. Yet consultation is inherently capable of correcting provisional errors. A court…
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35 |
| 28 Mar 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 286 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employment tribunal assessing compensation for unfair dismissal may reconstruct what would probably have happened if the employer had acted fairly. A…
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26 |
| 14 Apr 2005 |
[2005] EWHC 579 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a statutory appeal alleging undue leniency in professional discipline, the court may intervene only where the sanction was one which a disciplinary tribunal…
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21 |
| 3 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 145 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claimant who has suffered a tortious loss may elect to recover damages for future care and accommodation from the tortfeasor rather than rely on a public…
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17 |
| 9 Nov 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2972 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A court considering an interim suspension under the Dentists Act 1984 exercises an original jurisdiction. Its inquiry is more open-ended than judicial review…
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15 |
| 10 Jan 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 13 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At a review of a doctor’s suspension, the tribunal must first decide whether fitness to practise remains impaired. The doctor bears a persuasive burden of…
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15 |
| 23 Feb 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 94 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant in the fixed-costs regime for lower-value personal injury claims makes a successful Part 36 offer, the claimant receives fixed costs up to the…
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11 |
| 9 May 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 1025 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal from a professional disciplinary tribunal is technically a rehearing, but the court ordinarily reviews the evidence and material before the tribunal.…
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10 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2271 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Proprietary and freezing injunctions engage different tests. A proprietary injunction requires a serious issue to be tried, a favourable balance of…
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| 10 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2130 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In assessing road-traffic liability, a driver who encounters drifting and thickening smoke in fading light must reduce speed sufficiently to react to an unseen…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2043 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Judicial review is not an appeal on the merits. Where Parliament entrusts a technical or ethical regulatory function to a specialist body able to ask probing…
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| 3 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 851 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Dishonesty requires the court first to ascertain the defendant’s actual knowledge or belief about the facts and then to assess the conduct by the objective…
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| 29 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1273 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an appeal from a case-management decision, the appellate court must respect the first-instance judge’s wide discretion. Intervention is justified only where…
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| 15 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1175 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary judgment application concerning contractual construction, the court may determine a short point of law where the evidence is sufficient and a…
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| 14 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 819 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A guarantee must be construed objectively, by reference to its language, purpose, structure and relevant background. General expressions such as “all monies”…
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| 2 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 810 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An inquest must focus on determining who the deceased was and how, when and where the death occurred. A coroner may limit findings to the central, potentially…
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| 19 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3302 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In assessing negligence in a road-traffic accident, duty, breach and causation are component parts of a single inquiry. The question is whether the defendant…
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| 20 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3064 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a reverse summary judgment application, a claimant need only show a real prospect of establishing the pleaded case. The court may closely examine evidence…
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| 4 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2069 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On a without-notice application, the court may grant proprietary and worldwide freezing injunctions where the applicant shows a good arguable case…
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| 29 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 986 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An application to set aside a freezing order for material non-disclosure or fabricated evidence is different from an ordinary application to discharge an…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, HF: Hempsons, Horwich Farrelly, Eastwoods Solicitors.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which HF 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 HF. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.