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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Howes Percival LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 22 Apr 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 23 · Supreme Court
Where a company suffers loss through wrongdoing by its directors, their conduct and knowledge are not attributed to the company so as to defeat its claim…
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58 |
| 15 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 71 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where planning permission is granted for development which departs from the development plan and affects the Green Belt, the authority is subject to a…
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33 |
| 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 |
| 23 May 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 711 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compensation under a cross-undertaking in damages is normally assessed by analogy with contractual damages. A defendant may recover loss naturally flowing from…
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19 |
| 19 Sep 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 2313 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A creditors’ winding-up petition is a sufficient proceeding to support interim relief, including a freezing order, although it seeks no money judgment. The…
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17 |
| 15 Jan 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 18 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an appeal limited to points of law, an appellate court must identify the challenged finding, its significance, the relevant evidence, and why the tribunal…
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13 |
| 11 Aug 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 814 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning authority must determine an application in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise. It must…
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12 |
| 6 May 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 372 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A company facing a winding-up petition will normally obtain dismissal where it establishes a genuine and serious cross-claim likely to exceed the petition…
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11 |
| 26 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 680 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For disqualification under the Company Directors’ Disqualification Act 1986, a person may be a de facto and shadow director without formal appointment.…
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11 |
| 24 Jul 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1975 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Whether related developments constitute one project for environmental impact assessment is a matter of planning judgment, reviewable on ordinary public law…
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11 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 7 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 830 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where costs are payable subject to detailed assessment, the usual order is a reasonable payment on account unless there is good reason to withhold it. A…
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| 18 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 639 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, responsibility for the causes of a company’s insolvency is not a jurisdictional threshold.…
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| 13 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 253 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For direct discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, the tribunal must identify the factual reason why for less favourable treatment. A protected belief may…
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| 23 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 362 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Registration of a notice under paragraph 84(1) of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 automatically terminates the administrator’s appointment under…
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| 19 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 351 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application to adjourn a trial, the governing question is whether proceeding would be fair in all the circumstances. The assessment is fact-sensitive and…
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| 17 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 319 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to annul a bankruptcy order made by an adjudicator, the court may consider whether the order ought not to have been made because the court’s…
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| 17 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3284 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A qualifying floating charge is enforceable for the purposes of paragraph 16 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 when the charge-holder has the right to…
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| 3 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3189 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an interim injunction application, the court must choose the course likely to cause the least injustice, assuming there is a serious issue to be tried. The…
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| 24 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1485 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An inspector determining a planning appeal must take account of an executed planning obligation which is obviously material to the planning balance, even where…
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| 13 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1380 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A stay of disqualification proceedings pending parallel foreign civil proceedings will be granted only where it better serves the interests of justice than…
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| 3 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 9 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Fraudulent trading under section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 requires actual dishonesty, assessed by determining the defendant’s state of knowledge or…
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| 31 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2689 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For an urgent interim injunction concerning alleged exclusion from a partnership business, the court applies the three-stage approach in American Cyanamid: a…
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Earlier names
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Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Howes Percival LLP 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 Howes Percival LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.