Law firm

Jackson Parton

Jackson Parton is named as solicitors in at least 51 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and arbitration.

51
judgments
4
in the last five years
10
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes29
  • Arbitration24
  • Shipping, aviation and trade17
  • Cross-border disputes8
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery2
  • Company and partnership1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)10
  • High Court41

Counsel most often instructed

  • Michael Collett6
  • Chirag Karia4
  • Timothy Young3

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20250
  • 20240
  • 20231
  • 20222
  • 20210
  • 20202
  • 20191
  • 20181
  • 20172
  • 20162
  • 20150
  • 20147
  • 20132
  • 20123
  • 20112
  • 20103
  • 20093
  • 20084
  • 20073

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Jackson Parton acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
9 Aug 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 1413 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court may allow an appeal and order a retrial where the trial judgment does not demonstrate that the critical issues and evidence were properly…
83
10 Jun 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 531 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual term is implied only where the instrument, read as a whole against its relevant background, would reasonably be understood to contain it.…
35
7 Nov 2003
[2003] EWHC 2602 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual term purports to confer a benefit on an identified third party where, on its proper construction, it provides for payment to that third party.…
15
5 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 519 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 1(1)(b) of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, a third party may enforce a contractual term which, properly construed in its…
12
31 Jul 2009
[2009] EWHC 1975 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When reviewing an arbitral award for serious irregularity, the court reads the award as a whole and fairly. It does not conduct minute textual analysis or seek…
12
23 Feb 2005
[2005] EWHC 219 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An arbitration award cannot ordinarily be challenged under section 68(2)(g) of the Arbitration Act 1996 merely because witnesses may have lied. The applicant…
12
18 Mar 2010
[2010] EWHC 542 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The ordinary test for remoteness in contract remains whether the type of loss was within the parties’ reasonable contemplation when contracting as not unlikely…
11
28 Jul 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 1007 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A vessel must not cross a narrow channel or fairway if doing so would impede a vessel which can navigate safely only within it. A vessel approaching in…
8
3 Apr 2003
[2003] EWCA Civ 451 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Unauthorised deck stowage in breach of a carriage contract does not automatically deprive a carrier of the package limitation in Article IV rule 5 of the Hague…
6
19 Nov 2008
[2008] EWHC 2761 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An arrest of a vessel abroad is permissible where its sole purpose is to obtain reasonable security for a claim which must be arbitrated or litigated in…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
9 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 518 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An application under Arbitration Act 1996, s 68, is subject to a high threshold and requires substantial injustice. Section 68 is not a route for appealing…
1
25 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 1953 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is a de novo rehearing, although the court may consider the tribunal’s reasoning with care and adopt…
1
14 Mar 2022
[2022] EWHC 766 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under Arbitration Act 1996, section 68, concerns due process rather than the correctness of an arbitral decision. A tribunal must give the parties…
1
16 Dec 2020
[2020] EWHC 3462 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a section 67 challenge under the Arbitration Act 1996, the court must determine jurisdiction afresh by construing the arbitration agreement for itself. A…
1
28 Jul 2020
[2020] EWHC 2030 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contractual responsibility for discharging cargo remains with the shipowner unless the contract uses clear language transferring responsibility to charterers…
9 Aug 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 1413 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court may allow an appeal and order a retrial where the trial judgment does not demonstrate that the critical issues and evidence were properly…
83
25 Jul 2018
[2018] EWHC 1902 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, a lawful holder who acquires rights of suit under a bill of lading becomes party to an arbitration agreement contained…
16 Nov 2017
[2017] EWHC 2893 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Service of arbitral documents by email is capable of being an effective means under Arbitration Act 1996, section 76. Where the email is sent to an individual…
2
3 Mar 2017
[2017] EWHC 719 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An anti-suit injunction should protect an English arbitration agreement, but it should not restrain a foreign arrest obtained solely to provide reasonable…
2
15 Aug 2016
[2016] EWHC 2110 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party does not submit to a foreign court merely by appearing to contest jurisdiction or to seek a stay or dismissal in favour of arbitration. The question is…
3
22 Mar 2016
[2016] EWHC 583 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A trip time charter remains a time charter. The charterer generally controls the vessel’s employment during the charter period, subject to the agreed trading…
1
12 Dec 2014
[2014] EWHC 4176 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a charterparty indemnity covers losses or expenses arising from a charterer’s failure to discharge cargo at the agreed port, the question is whether the…

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