Law firm

Howells Solicitors

Howells Solicitors is named as solicitors in at least 26 UK judgments from 2004 to 2026, most often in family and children and public and administrative law.

26
judgments
3
in the last five years
14
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Family and children11
  • Public and administrative law8
  • Civil liberties and human rights5
  • Immigration and asylum3
  • Trusts, wills and private client2
  • Real estate2
  • Crime2
  • Cross-border disputes2

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)13
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)1
  • High Court11
  • Upper Tribunal1

Counsel most often instructed

  • Stephen Cragg3

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20251
  • 20240
  • 20231
  • 20220
  • 20210
  • 20200
  • 20191
  • 20181
  • 20173
  • 20162
  • 20150
  • 20141
  • 20136
  • 20122
  • 20111
  • 20101
  • 20090
  • 20084
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Howells Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
22 Nov 2011
[2011] UKUT 443 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
A party seeking to adduce oral evidence by electronic means must justify that departure from the ordinary model of live evidence in the hearing room. The…
5
22 Nov 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 1377 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For an indivisible injury, a defendant whose breach materially contributes to the injury is liable for the whole injury. The claimant need not also prove that…
4
21 Apr 2016
[2016] EWCA Civ 395 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For EU free-movement purposes, a benefit is labour-market related only where its sole or predominant function is to facilitate access to employment. A benefit…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
13 May 2026
[2026] EWHC 1107 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In construing a settlement, the court must read the instrument as a whole and select interpretative tools appropriate to its nature. Textual analysis generally…
22 Nov 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 1377 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For an indivisible injury, a defendant whose breach materially contributes to the injury is liable for the whole injury. The claimant need not also prove that…
4
7 Nov 2017
[2017] EWCA Civ 1751 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of Article 17(1)(a) of the Citizens Directive, residence means legal residence. The provision derogates from the five-year duration…
1
15 Aug 2017
[2017] EWHC 2121 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A highway authority may lawfully remove trees where removal forms part of maintaining the highway. Peaceful protest rights under Articles 10 and 11 may be…
28 Apr 2017
[2017] EWCA Civ 318 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A coroner may investigate, and hold an inquest to determine, whether a baby was born alive or still-born. Section 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 does…
2
21 Apr 2016
[2016] EWCA Civ 395 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For EU free-movement purposes, a benefit is labour-market related only where its sole or predominant function is to facilitate access to employment. A benefit…
3
22 Nov 2011
[2011] UKUT 443 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
A party seeking to adduce oral evidence by electronic means must justify that departure from the ordinary model of live evidence in the hearing room. The…
5
12 Mar 2010
[2010] EWHC 466 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Disclosure of information about a convicted sex offender requires a fact-sensitive balancing exercise. The public interest in protecting children does not…
2 Oct 2008
[2008] EWHC 2502 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The procedural obligation under Article 2 is engaged where there is at least an arguable case that the state may have breached its substantive obligation to…
22 Jul 2004
[2004] EWHC 2569 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A transfer from prison to hospital under section 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983 does not bring a custodial sentence to an end. The sentence continues to run…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Howells Solicitors 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 Howells Solicitors. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.