Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Howard Kennedy acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 13 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 312 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A proposed amendment must have a real prospect of success. Where an amendment made after expiry of an arguable limitation period introduces a new cause of…
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19 |
| 8 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 959 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, section 25, a worldwide freezing order supporting proceedings elsewhere requires both satisfaction of the…
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19 |
| 16 Mar 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 286 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The fraud exception applies to litigation privilege as well as legal advice privilege. Communications and documents created to further a criminal or fraudulent…
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15 |
| 31 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1194 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When asked to grant an injunction enforcing a contractual restriction on publication, the court must apply section 12 of the Human Rights Act 1998, even where…
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14 |
| 23 Jan 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 9 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For service out of the jurisdiction, a claim need not arise under a contract to be a claim “in respect of” it. The phrase extends to a claim sufficiently…
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13 |
| 29 Mar 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 665 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application for a stay under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the applicant must establish that an arbitration agreement was concluded and that the…
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12 |
| 30 Jul 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 1050 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an appeal under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the First-tier Tribunal may exclude both a party and that party’s legal representative from a closed…
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12 |
| 1 Jul 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 1574 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A professional valuer is judged primarily by the standard of reasonable skill and care in the valuation process. However, where the complaint concerns the…
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9 |
| 22 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2960 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A worldwide freezing order may be continued after non-disclosure where the interests of justice require it. The usual starting point is discharge, but an…
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7 |
| 3 Feb 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 74 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Reynolds qualified privilege requires both publication on a subject which it is in the public interest to publish and responsible journalism in the particular…
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7 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 9 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2554 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A final charging order requires the court to consider all the circumstances, particularly the debtor’s personal circumstances and whether another creditor…
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| 21 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1840 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning policy requiring purpose-built student accommodation to be secured for students by an agreement with a higher education provider does not, without…
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| 3 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1624 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A prior ruling that expenditure is not recoverable through a lease’s service-charge provisions does not necessarily bar a distinct claim based on a separate…
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| 5 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1037 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A court determining historical facts should use reliable contemporaneous documents, known or probable facts and properly drawn inferences as the platform for…
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| 26 Mar 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 133 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Under section 72(4)(b) of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, services may be capable of independent provision even where they are initially shared…
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| 13 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2966 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For an arbitration-related stay under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996, compliance with CPR Part 62 is the appropriate procedural route. A separate Part…
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| 16 Sep 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 298 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Paragraph 8 of Schedule 8 to the Building Safety Act 2022 protects qualifying leaseholders from service charges for unsafe cladding remediation, whether or not…
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| 18 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2168 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Interest on a judgment debt is compensatory. Where the judgment is expressed in a foreign currency, the court may adopt a broad-brush borrowing-cost measure in…
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| 28 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1989 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In identifying a contracting party, the court may consider objective extrinsic evidence, including pre-contract negotiations, where the contractual description…
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| 25 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1851 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An extradition appeal under Extradition Act 2003 requires the appellate court to decide whether the extradition judge reached a wrong decision or whether…
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| 16 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1405 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An interim injunction restraining a qualifying floating charge holder from appointing administrators out of court is determined under the American Cyanamid…
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1 |
| 4 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 22 · Supreme Court
A creditor is put on inquiry in a non-commercial hybrid transaction whenever, viewed from the creditor’s perspective, more than a de minimis part of the…
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1 |
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Howard Kennedy: Finers Stephens Innocent, Stephens Innocent.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Howard Kennedy 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 Howard Kennedy. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.