Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Hugh James acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 19 May 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 463 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A proprietary-estoppel remedy must be a retrospective and proportionate response to the unconscionability arising when an assurance is not performed.…
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27 |
| 15 Jan 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 4 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For appeals under the Civil Procedure Rules, the relevant decision date is the hearing at which the decision is formally given, including the formal hand-down…
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23 |
| 19 Mar 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 312 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compliance with an environmental permit does not itself make an interference with neighbouring land a reasonable use, nor does it displace private-law rights…
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16 |
| 27 Mar 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 363 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When awarding pre-judgment interest on legal costs, the court conducts a general appraisal of what is reasonable for both the paying and receiving parties. The…
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12 |
| 23 Oct 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 1003 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual duty to exercise reasonable care in providing holiday facilities does not ordinarily require a tour operator to protect a person of full capacity…
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10 |
| 26 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 862 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Depreciation in the value of a home caused by noise or other physical effects from public works may interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of possessions under…
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10 |
| 24 Aug 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2021 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
The statutory enforcement scheme for sewerage duties does not automatically exclude every common-law or human-rights claim. The Marcic principle precludes…
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6 |
| 21 Dec 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 1749 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A rule governing additions to income-based jobseeker’s allowance unlawfully discriminates against men where it makes entitlement depend on receipt of child…
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6 |
| 3 Sep 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 2688 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A contract naming an existing company will not be treated as a contract with another company merely because the latter performed the work or was intended…
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6 |
| 12 Jan 2017 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 1302 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A notification condition requiring notice as soon as possible after an event likely to give rise to a claim is assessed by reference to the event when it…
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6 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 16 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2645 (SCCO) · High Court: Senior Courts Costs Office
Without prejudice privilege may be lifted only in exceptional circumstances where exclusion of the evidence would cloak unambiguous impropriety. The threshold…
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2083 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In complex group litigation, costs must be assessed by looking at the litigation as a whole, not simply by asking which party received money or won individual…
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| 4 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2054 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A subcontractor cannot enforce a project-bank-account payment clause under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 merely because it is a supplier or…
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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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| 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…
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 941 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In military noise-induced hearing-loss litigation, diagnosis remains a matter of clinical judgment informed by, but not mechanically determined by, diagnostic…
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| 21 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2977 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A diagnosis of non-freezing cold injury is a clinical diagnosis based on the overall clinical history. It requires evidence of cold exposure, subsequent…
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| 8 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2831 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 scheme, a dwelling is treated as unfit for human habitation while a landlord fails to comply with the…
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1 |
| 6 Sep 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1026 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For business interruption cover requiring an occurrence, manifestation or suffering of a notifiable disease at insured premises, the parties may agree a causal…
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| 31 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1966 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under CPR rules 7.3 and 19.1, whether multiple claims may proceed on one claim form turns on convenience. Convenience is assessed by broad judicial discretion…
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1 |
| 29 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1971 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Claims may be consolidated where their facts and issues substantially overlap, even though they are not identical. The court should consider the risk of…
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1 |
| 26 Mar 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 652 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Following a clinical guideline will ordinarily be strong evidence against negligence, but it does not remove the duty to exercise judgment in the individual…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Hugh James: Ford Simey.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Hugh James 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 Hugh James. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.