Law firm

Jenner & Block LLP

Jenner & Block LLP is named as solicitors in at least 17 UK judgments from 2017 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and public and administrative law.

17
judgments
8
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
2
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes6
  • Public and administrative law3
  • Company and partnership3
  • Insolvency and restructuring2
  • Banking and finance2
  • Cross-border disputes2
  • Public procurement1
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery1

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)2
  • High Court13
  • Upper Tribunal1

Counsel most often instructed

  • Alex Barden4

Judgments by year

  • 20264
  • 20252
  • 20241
  • 20231
  • 20220
  • 20212
  • 20204
  • 20192
  • 20180
  • 20171

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Jenner & Block LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
30 Oct 2019
[2019] UKSC 50 · Supreme Court
A bank must refrain from executing an authorised payment instruction while reasonable grounds exist for believing that it is an attempt to misappropriate the…
16
13 Sep 2020
[2020] EWHC 2441 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For scheme class composition, the court must focus on creditors’ legal rights, rather than commercial interests. The relevant comparison is between rights…
8
16 Feb 2017
[2017] EWHC 257 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A bank owes its customer a duty to refrain from executing a payment instruction where it has reasonable grounds for believing that the instruction is an…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
14 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1759 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 has no territorial limit. Relief may be granted against foreign persons or property where there is a sufficient…
24 Apr 2026
[2026] EWHC 1103 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to bring a counterclaim after the defence requires the court to consider both its prospects of success and whether permission is justified under the…
23 Jan 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 25 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
There is no presumption that an application for a third-party costs order must be determined before, or in tandem with, detailed assessment. The sequence is a…
6 Oct 2025
[2025] UKUT 319 (AAC) · Upper Tribunal: Administrative Appeals Chamber
Article 2(2)(a) GDPR is a narrow exclusion concerned with activities reserved to EU Member States, such as national security, rather than every activity beyond…
28 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1948 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A disclosure guidance hearing will ordinarily attract costs in the case under Practice Direction 57AD. The court may depart from that default where the…
26 Jul 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 886 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The foreign act of state rule does not prevent an English court from considering an act merely because it occurred within a wider sovereign course of conduct.…
1
16 Apr 2021
[2021] EWHC 929 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court may order indemnity costs where conduct or circumstances take the case outside the norm and justify that order. Persistent non-compliance with…
15 Feb 2021
[2021] EWHC 286 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 concerns substantive jurisdiction, not the admissibility of a claim. A contractual condition requiring…
13 Sep 2020
[2020] EWHC 2441 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For scheme class composition, the court must focus on creditors’ legal rights, rather than commercial interests. The relevant comparison is between rights…
8
25 Jun 2020
[2020] EWHC 164 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application for strike-out or summary judgment, the court must not conduct a mini-trial. A claim should proceed where factual disputes may determine the…
22 Jun 2020
[2020] EWHC 1616 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In construing a litigation-funding agreement, provisions disregarding or adding back reductions in recoveries are read in their contractual and commercial…
8 Apr 2020
[2020] EWHC 850 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual indemnity for assets damaged before completion is construed from the contract as a whole, with the wording receiving particular weight in a…
1

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