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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Keoghs LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Apr 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 595 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For indemnity costs, conduct outside the norm means conduct outside the ordinary and reasonable conduct of proceedings. The frequency with which particular…
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43 |
| 20 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 237 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A motorist’s negligence must be assessed by the standard of reasonable prudence and competence at the moment of decision. A court must not infer negligence…
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16 |
| 1 Apr 2020 |
[2020] UKSC 13 · Supreme Court
Vicarious liability may arise where the tortfeasor is an employee or stands in a relationship sufficiently analogous to employment. It does not extend to a…
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15 |
| 20 May 2015 |
[2015] UKSC 33 · Supreme Court
At common law, liability for mesothelioma under the Fairchild rule remains proportionate to each wrongdoer’s contribution to the overall risk. Section 3 of the…
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14 |
| 18 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 180 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When deciding whether to disapply the limitation period for a historic abuse claim, the court may assess the claimant’s credibility against the credibility of…
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9 |
| 17 Jul 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 1804 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, a de facto director is identified by asking whether the person formed part of the…
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8 |
| 23 Oct 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2342 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Disapplication of a limitation period under section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 is exceptional. The claimant bears the burden of showing that it is…
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7 |
| 21 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2648 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, a personal injury claim must be dismissed where the claimant is entitled to damages but has been…
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6 |
| 21 Nov 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1816 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Temporal proximity may support an inference of causation where the later damage is of the kind naturally expected from the earlier work. Expert speculation…
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6 |
| 11 Dec 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1331 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A trial judge has a wide discretion to reduce the costs recoverable by a successful party whose lies made complex litigation more difficult. The reduction may…
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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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| 16 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1486 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An unsuccessful party will ordinarily pay costs, but indemnity costs require a further exercise of the court’s broad discretion. They are justified where the…
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| 26 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1260 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Under the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978, contribution requires the parties to be liable for the same damage. A company is not jointly vicariously…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1239 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, a personal injury claim must be dismissed where the claimant is fundamentally dishonest in…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1219 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a defamation claim arising from statements made in complaint correspondence, serious harm is assessed separately for each publication and each publishee.…
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| 19 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1126 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A claim alleging contractual breach or negligence must identify the relevant defect, breach or negligent act, and explain how it caused the loss. Alternative…
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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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| 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…
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| 12 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 6 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Claims for disease-related injury must ordinarily be proved on the balance of probabilities by showing that the defendant’s breach caused the disease. The…
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| 19 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3341 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An occupier’s duty under the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 or the Occupiers Liability Act 1984 arises only where injury results from a danger due to the state…
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| 2 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3178 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a credit-hire claim, the reasonableness of the hire period and rate are separate questions. A debarring order must be read according to its ordinary and…
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