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JD Spicer Zeb Solicitors

JD Spicer Zeb Solicitors is named as solicitors in at least 56 UK judgments from 2003 to 2025, most often in public and administrative law and extradition.

56
judgments
8
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
17
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law37
  • Extradition33
  • Immigration and asylum11
  • Family and children5
  • Civil liberties and human rights4
  • Housing3
  • Crime3
  • Cross-border disputes1

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)15
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)2
  • High Court36
  • Upper Tribunal1

Counsel most often instructed

  • Hugh Southey7
  • Alex Burrett3
  • Finola Moore3
  • Florence Iveson3
  • Malcolm Hawkes3
  • Sonali Naik3

Judgments by year

  • 20260
  • 20251
  • 20240
  • 20233
  • 20224
  • 20214
  • 20203
  • 20195
  • 20186
  • 20174
  • 20163
  • 20158
  • 20142
  • 20134
  • 20122
  • 20110
  • 20102
  • 20090
  • 20081
  • 20071

Cases later courts cite most

Cases JD Spicer Zeb Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
20 Oct 2020
[2020] EWHC 2836 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the permission stage in an extradition appeal, Article 8 compatibility must be assessed by reference to the remand time served when permission is…
34
28 Feb 2018
[2018] EWHC 359 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where general prison conditions create a real risk of treatment contrary to article 3, extradition may proceed if case-specific assurances reliably remove that…
15
12 Apr 2017
[2017] EWHC 827 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In extradition proceedings, assurances about Article 3-compliant prison conditions must provide a sufficient practical guarantee against ill-treatment. A…
5
31 Oct 2018
[2018] EWHC 2848 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Systemic or generalised deficiencies affecting judicial independence in an issuing Member State do not automatically require refusal to execute a European…
4
20 Sep 2018
[2018] EWCA Civ 2064 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981, the Secretary of State’s opinion as to what is conducive to the public good must be current. The…
4
31 Oct 2017
[2017] EWHC 2675 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of s 20 of the Extradition Act 2003, the central question is whether surrender would breach the absent defendant’s fair-trial rights. The…
4
21 Dec 2021
[2022] UKUT 1 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Extant country guidance is a legal presumption of fact. It must be followed unless cogent evidence shows both a material change in circumstances and that the…
3
24 May 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 616 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the prohibition in section 40(4) of the British Nationality Act 1981, a person is stateless only if they are de jure stateless. The Secretary of State’s…
3
17 Oct 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 1000 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Statutory overcrowding, even where continued occupation constitutes an offence, does not of itself make it unreasonable for an applicant to remain in the…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
22 Jan 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 33 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a refugee is reasonably regarded as a danger to national security, the danger must be real and serious. The Refugee Convention, the materially…
14 Dec 2023
[2023] EWHC 3213 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where a public authority unsuccessfully brings proceedings in the public interest, the starting point may be no order as to costs where a routine costs risk…
1
3 Feb 2023
[2023] EWHC 201 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal under the Extradition Act 2003, the High Court asks whether the extradition judge reached the wrong decision, rather than conducting the…
1 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 1697 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For section 14 of the Extradition Act 2003, fugitivity requires a subjective state of mind: the requested person must knowingly place himself beyond the reach…
1
27 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1287 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an extradition appeal under Article 8, the appellate court must decide whether the district judge’s decision was wrong. It must respect factual findings…
21 Dec 2021
[2022] UKUT 1 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Extant country guidance is a legal presumption of fact. It must be followed unless cogent evidence shows both a material change in circumstances and that the…
3
21 Dec 2021
[2021] EWHC 3484 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a renewed application for bail in an extradition case, the court must reconsider the material circumstances, including any claimed change in circumstances…
7 Jul 2021
[2021] EWHC 1901 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an application for bail in extradition proceedings, the court must determine the merits independently, objectively and afresh on the materials before it.…
3 Dec 2020
[2020] EWHC 3316 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an extradition appeal, proportionality under Article 8 requires a careful examination of the interference with private and family life, including the…
20 Oct 2020
[2020] EWHC 2836 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the permission stage in an extradition appeal, Article 8 compatibility must be assessed by reference to the remand time served when permission is…
34
30 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 2084 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an extradition case involving alleged unfitness to plead, oppression under section 25 of the Extradition Act depends on the particular circumstances and the…
11 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 1809 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Fresh evidence on an extradition appeal should be admitted only where it could not, with reasonable diligence, have been obtained for the original hearing.…

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