Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Keystone Law acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 9 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 1645 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joint authorship requires collaboration pursuant to a common design, authorial contributions sufficient to express each contributor’s own intellectual…
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86 |
| 2 Oct 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3233 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a claimant discontinues proceedings containing allegations of fraud, the court will generally order the claimant to pay the defendant’s costs on the…
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18 |
| 3 Oct 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3087 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Damages for infringement of intellectual property rights remain compensatory. A claimant may recover the reasonable royalty that would have been agreed for a…
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13 |
| 12 May 2022 |
[2022] UKPC 18 · Privy Council
A bank’s Quincecare duty is owed only to its customer. It arises from the bank’s implied contractual duty, and its co-extensive tortious duty, to exercise…
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11 |
| 15 Feb 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 243 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The statutory power to search premises after an arrest does not depend on the arrested person being considered dangerous. It requires a lawful arrest away from…
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6 |
| 3 Feb 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 140 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a planning judicial review, the court reviews the legality of the decision-making process, not the planning merits. Whether a matter is material is a…
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5 |
| 13 Nov 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3588 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Witnesses and parties are ordinarily entitled to attend a public civil trial. Exclusion is exceptional and requires a particularised good reason showing that…
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4 |
| 15 Aug 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2151 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A company is liable in deceit where its agent makes materially false representations about the size and quality of its available customer pool, intending the…
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4 |
| 20 May 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 714 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Delay in delivering judgment, however inordinate and inexcusable, does not by itself justify allowing an appeal. A lengthy delay nevertheless requires the…
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4 |
| 21 Jun 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1528 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The unsuccessful party will ordinarily pay the successful party’s costs. The court may take conduct into account, but a departure from that rule requires…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 15 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2360 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application for an interim payment under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 r. 25.23(c), the applicant must satisfy the court, on the balance of…
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| 4 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2281 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In a petition under Companies Act 2006, section 994, unfair prejudice requires proof that the conduct concerned the company’s affairs, caused prejudice to a…
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| 29 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1966 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where an employee is contractually required to report threats to the employer’s business, failure to disclose a major client’s termination notice can breach…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1916 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Local Government Act 1972, a local authority must disclose documents meeting the statutory definition of background papers, including material…
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| 24 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1897 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a summary judgment application involving contractual construction, a court should decide a short point where the agreement and necessary objective…
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| 21 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 942 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A bank or payment service provider must ordinarily execute a customer’s apparently valid payment instruction. Its duty to exercise reasonable care requires…
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| 17 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1813 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Directing a preliminary issue is a broad case-management discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, but it should be exercised cautiously. The issue…
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| 16 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EAT 104 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
A tribunal deciding a constructive dismissal claim based on a course of conduct must consider the employer’s conduct cumulatively against the implied term of…
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| 12 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1438 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A restructuring plan under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 may be sanctioned despite dissent by creditor classes where the statutory conditions are met and…
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| 5 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1354 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A post-Grenfell commercial lease requiring a landlord to keep a tall hotel building in good condition may require the removal and replacement of inherently…
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| 7 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1321 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a restructuring plan, the court examines jurisdiction, statutory gateway conditions, notification, class composition and any apparent…
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| 28 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 983 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A recording agreement may transfer copyright ownership and grant a continuing consent to exploit recorded performances, including by methods developed after…
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