Law firm

Jones Day

Jones Day is named as solicitors in at least 201 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and insolvency and restructuring.

201
judgments
67
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
46
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes60
  • Insolvency and restructuring31
  • Company and partnership21
  • Cross-border disputes21
  • Intellectual property17
  • Trusts, wills and private client14
  • Competition and regulated industries14
  • Arbitration13

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)46
  • High Court153

Counsel most often instructed

  • Matthew Cook12
  • Andreas Gledhill8
  • Andrew Hunter7
  • Edward Ho7
  • Mark Hoskins7
  • Andrew Trotter6
  • Robert Anderson6
  • Anthony Peto5

Judgments by year

  • 202613
  • 202517
  • 202411
  • 202312
  • 202214
  • 20213
  • 202010
  • 20199
  • 20186
  • 20178
  • 20162
  • 201511
  • 20146
  • 20139
  • 20129
  • 201112
  • 20108
  • 20093
  • 20088
  • 20076

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Jones Day acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
24 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 618 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an urgent arbitral case, section 44(3) of the Arbitration Act 1996 confines the court to orders it considers necessary to preserve evidence or assets. The…
34
13 Jan 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 14 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claim form served under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 must be sealed by the court. Under electronic working, a claim form is not ready for service until it…
27
13 Mar 2003
[2003] EWHC 1507 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A bonus issue may be irregular where the shares in respect of which bonus shares are allotted are not fully paid, or where required shareholder authority is…
24
23 Apr 2010
[2010] EWHC 888 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The standard basis is the normal basis for assessing costs. Indemnity costs require conduct or circumstances which take the case outside the norm. Where…
23
21 Dec 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1744 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an enforcement appeal under section 174(2)(f), an inspector must consider whether the breach can be remedied by measures short of complete removal which are…
23
22 May 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 542 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The nature of a guarantee depends on its construction as a whole, not its label. In a non-banking transaction there is a strong presumption against construing…
22
9 Apr 2019
[2019] EWHC 914 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Practice Direction 51U applies to all relevant existing and new Business and Property Courts proceedings from 1 January 2019. A disclosure order made earlier…
20
19 Nov 2014
[2014] EWHC 3849 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For class composition in a creditors’ scheme, the court first compares creditors’ legal rights against the company. Differences in personal interests or…
19
17 Oct 2007
[2007] EWHC 2402 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual insolvency trigger incorporating the commercial insolvency test in Insolvency Act 1986 section 123(1) permits consideration of debts falling due…
18
14 Dec 2022
[2022] UKSC 33 · Supreme Court
A planning authority cannot use a planning condition to require a landowner to dedicate land within a development as a public highway. General powers to impose…
17

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
24 Sep 2026
[2026] EWHC 2456 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In patent case management, the issues for trial should address the pleaded legal questions, rather than an unpleaded decision to seek patent protection. Model…
21 Sep 2026
[2026] EWHC 2394 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under Insolvency Act 1986, leave to proceed after a winding-up should be granted where the proposed claim is genuinely arguable and raises a serious or…
27 Jul 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 964 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an account of profits for patent infringement, factual causation does not establish that all profits were derived from the infringement. The court must…
10 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1403 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In complex group litigation, permission to amend pleadings is governed by the overriding objective and requires a balance between prejudice to the applicant…
23 Apr 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 493 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A certificate of lawfulness of existing use or development may be revoked only where a materially false statement or document was used, or material information…
2
27 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 441 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Estoppel by convention cannot be treated as a slogan that automatically prevents relief whenever a new right is alleged. The court must examine the legal…
1
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…
6 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 164 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction requires four matters to be established: a serious issue to be tried, a good arguable case within a…
16 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 65 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Deferred contractual sums become payable on expiry of the contract where the agreement treats expiry as a form of termination and provides no contrary…
15 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 64 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Payment Systems Regulator may use a general direction under Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013, section 54, to impose price caps on interchange…
13 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2608 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party cannot withhold documents identified by an existing disclosure search merely by asserting that the pleaded issue to which they relate is unimportant.…
1
1 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2480 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court holds that mere provision of banking services or marketing support does not suffice for accessory liability: an assister must provide…
3

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Jones Day: Jones Day Gouldens, Gouldens.

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