Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Kingsley Napley LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 19 Dec 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 80 · Supreme Court
Permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction requires a plausible evidential basis for an applicable gateway. Where disputed facts can be assessed…
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| 20 Oct 2021 |
[2021] UKSC 45 · Supreme Court
For the domestic tort gateway in paragraph 3.1(9)(a) of Civil Procedure Rules 1998 Practice Direction 6B, “damage” means actionable harm caused by the alleged…
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78 |
| 10 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 433 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The meaning of a tweet is assessed impressionistically through the ordinary reasonable reader, taking account of the whole statement and its relevant context.…
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60 |
| 22 May 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1176 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A transaction at an undervalue falls within section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 if putting assets beyond a claimant’s reach was a purpose of entering into…
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39 |
| 28 Oct 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 1418 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The rule against apparent bias applies to construction adjudicators. The question is whether a fair-minded and informed observer, having considered all…
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38 |
| 18 May 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1321 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Subscription applications for an investment scheme are not ordinarily subject to implied conditions precedent which are unclear, evaluative or concern future…
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27 |
| 28 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3221 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to amend pleadings is a fact-sensitive exercise requiring a fair balance between the applicant’s ability to present the real dispute and prejudice…
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24 |
| 23 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 1288 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A party which receives a serious invitation to participate in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) must normally engage with it. Silence is, as a general rule…
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21 |
| 3 Jul 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 665 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
At the jurisdiction stage, a claimant must show a good arguable case: more than a merely arguable case, but less than proof on the balance of probabilities.…
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18 |
| 30 Sep 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2431 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A split trial is exceptional and requires a real and substantial advantage over a single trial. The court must undertake a pragmatic balancing exercise…
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11 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Sep 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 351 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
Integrity in financial regulation is assessed contextually and objectively. It is broader than honesty and may be absent where a person’s ethical judgment is…
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| 11 Aug 2026 |
Witness IIA126, R (on the application of) v Chair of the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan
[2026] EWHC 2143 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an interim judicial review concerning closed material, the High Court exercises its own inherent Haralambous jurisdiction. It is not bound to reproduce the…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1927 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Amendment of an application challenging an insolvency office-holder’s remuneration is a discretionary case-management exercise under CPR 3.1(2)(p), applied by…
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| 30 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1604 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Disbarment for dishonesty is ordinarily required to maintain public confidence, but the principle is not mechanical. The question is whether disbarment is…
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| 9 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1388 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For jurisdiction under Insolvency Act 1986, carrying on business is a fact-sensitive question of mixed fact and law. It ordinarily involves commercial activity…
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| 28 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1279 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An order made on a party’s application remains a response to that application even where the application is decided on paper. It is not an order made by the…
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| 9 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 525 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In case-management decisions involving closed material procedures, the court should pursue a timetable that achieves a prompt and workable resolution while…
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| 3 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 47 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
For Principle 1 of the FCA’s Principles for Business, a firm’s business is identified by considering the employee’s role, the connection between that role and…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 300 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In costs budgeting, the court approves only costs that are both reasonable and proportionate on an inter partes basis. The exercise concerns the reasonable and…
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| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 98 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A strike-out application should not be used to obtain an unintended preliminary ruling on difficult statutory construction, particularly where the issue is…
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| 1 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1547 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judicial proceedings immunity does not protect an employer from a statutory whistleblowing detriment claim based on commencing court or arbitral proceedings…
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| 25 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3107 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where the Companies Act 2006 confers an express private right on members of a private company to require circulation of written resolutions, the criminal…
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