Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases King & Spalding acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 11 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 11 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The unambiguous impropriety exception to without prejudice privilege requires proof of impropriety which is genuinely unambiguous. A good arguable case or…
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11 |
| 22 Jan 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 67 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a settlement or termination agreement contains a dispute-resolution clause inconsistent with that in an earlier contract, the clauses must be construed…
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10 |
| 23 Apr 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 838 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The public-policy exception to enforcement of a New York Convention award receives a restrictive interpretation. The court balances the strong policies…
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8 |
| 10 Aug 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1896 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The discretion to set aside a notice of discontinuance under rule 38.4 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 is general and unqualified. Abuse of process or an…
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8 |
| 30 Jun 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 1723 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Registration of an ICSID award under the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966 and CPR r. 62.21 may be sought without notice. The reference…
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6 |
| 15 May 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 637 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When Her Majesty’s Government unequivocally recognises a body as the government of a foreign state, an English court must treat that body as the government for…
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5 |
| 18 Jan 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 44 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court may exercise its powers under section 18 of the Arbitration Act 1996 where there is a good arguable case for arbitral jurisdiction, but only if the…
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5 |
| 28 Jun 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 1472 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual termination right is ordinarily a binary right which may be exercised when its express conditions are satisfied, regardless of the terminating…
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4 |
| 13 Oct 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2506 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On a summary judgment application, a contract is made on written standard terms only where those terms are used routinely and remain effectively untouched.…
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4 |
| 6 Jun 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 1348 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An English court may permit a fraud challenge to a New York Convention award where the evidence was unavailable at the arbitration and there is a sufficiently…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2454 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The power to appoint post-judgment receivers is exercised where it is just and convenient. Under the Senior Courts Act 1981 and the Civil Procedure Rules 1998…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1996 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a JOLCO aircraft sub-lease, termination and return provisions do not necessarily form an exclusive code of remedies. A liquidated sum fixes recovery for the…
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| 24 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 797 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ratification of the New York Convention does not, without more, waive a state's adjudicative immunity. Article III must be interpreted as a whole. Its…
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| 3 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1277 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual power allowing a party to render an early termination agreement null and void and revert to earlier contractual rights is construed in its full…
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| 25 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 414 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The construction of a judicial order is determined objectively by its operative language, read in the circumstances known to the court and parties. The…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 460 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The order in which parties must particularise foreign law and adduce expert evidence is a matter of case management. Where a defendant first raises foreign…
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| 19 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1667 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 5 of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 bars enforcement of the whole amount of a foreign multiple-damages judgment. The bar includes the…
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2 |
| 21 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2724 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an application to amend, a pleaded legal argument should proceed where it has realistic prospects of success and is sufficiently particularised. Strike-out…
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1 |
| 23 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1920 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A post-judgment freezing order still requires proof of a real risk that the judgment will go unsatisfied because of unjustified dissipation of assets. The…
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1 |
| 18 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1837 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In an inquiry into damages under a cross-undertaking given for a freezing order, allegations that the order was obtained dishonestly should be permitted only…
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| 24 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 783 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An unqualified security assignment of a lessor’s rights may entitle a security trustee to terminate a lease for a lease default before an enforcement event…
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2 |
| 17 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 928 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual termination payment is not a penalty merely because it exceeds a conventional pre-estimate of loss. The court must identify the innocent party’s…
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