Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Holmes & Hills LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 24 Jan 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 9 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Development-plan policies must be interpreted objectively, according to their language and context. A court should not use the drafting history or the author’s…
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27 |
| 25 Sep 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 2660 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a challenge under section 288 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the court reviews legality, not the planning merits. An inspector’s decision letter…
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4 |
| 6 Dec 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 3285 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning committee’s resolution that it is minded to approve an application and defers it for consideration of conditions is ordinarily a preliminary view…
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4 |
| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 484 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 70C of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 may apply where a planning application is prospective, or where an enforcement notice has already been…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 18 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2189 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Adjudication decisions should be enforced summarily. A court will refuse enforcement only where it is plain that the adjudicator decided a question outside the…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 484 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 70C of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 may apply where a planning application is prospective, or where an enforcement notice has already been…
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3 |
| 5 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2278 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Prior approval under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 is a streamlined process, but it still requires an…
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1 |
| 2 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2257 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Indemnity costs require conduct which takes the case outside ordinary and reasonable litigation conduct. A party’s refusal of settlement offers, failure to…
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| 6 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2096 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A franchise agreement does not automatically attract implied duties of good faith and fair dealing. Such duties may nevertheless be implied in fact where the…
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1 |
| 31 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2025 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a clinical-negligence claim, a surgeon’s clinical judgment is assessed under the professional practice test, subject to the requirement that the supporting…
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1 |
| 10 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 882 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A restocking notice under section 17A of the Forestry Act 1967 may be served where it appears to the appropriate forestry authority that an offence has been…
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1 |
| 21 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 377 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a statutory planning challenge, an interested party to an enforcement appeal has no standing in the High Court unless that person has the requisite interest…
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| 20 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 350 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 70C of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 permits a local planning authority to decline a planning application where it overlaps with matters…
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1 |
| 2 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2034 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A restocking notice under section 17A of the Forestry Act 1967 must be determined lawfully and proportionately, having regard to the statutory forestry…
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| 22 Dec 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 3289 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When approving details under one planning condition, a local planning authority must consider whether the approved details may prejudice compliance with…
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1 |
| 17 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1806 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In determining an application for advertisement consent, a local planning authority must consider amenity and public safety, taking account of material…
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