Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Kirkland & Ellis International LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Nov 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2911 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a scheme of arrangement, the court determines creditor classes and any clear jurisdictional obstacle. It does not decide the scheme’s…
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| 6 May 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 1104 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For a solvent foreign company, the expression liable to be wound up in Companies Act 2006 scheme legislation identifies a category of company capable of…
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27 |
| 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…
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19 |
| 19 Nov 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 1562 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In intellectual property litigation, restrictions on access to highly confidential material must give the receiving party the fullest appropriate disclosure…
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18 |
| 22 Oct 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 1248 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A complex commercial agreement must be construed according to the meaning it would convey to a reasonable person, having regard to its language, context and…
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14 |
| 12 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 743 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When a court determines the terms of a global FRAND licence, national limitation periods do not exclude earlier sales. A willing licensee would pay a fair…
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11 |
| 14 Nov 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 3092 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court may sanction a scheme of arrangement where the statutory requirements are satisfied, the classes were properly constituted and represented, the…
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11 |
| 3 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1143 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a standard-essential patent holder invokes the English court’s jurisdiction to determine global FRAND terms, and both parties undertake to enter the…
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11 |
| 13 Nov 2024 |
[2024] UKSC 36 · Supreme Court
A trade mark application may be made in bad faith where its specification includes goods or services for which the applicant had no genuine intention to use…
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11 |
| 26 Mar 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 997 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a scheme of arrangement, the court makes only a preliminary assessment of class constitution and jurisdiction. Creditors belong in…
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10 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2482 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Parties must plead the material facts, but need not plead the law. A party may therefore advance a legal argument without specifically pleading it, provided…
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| 28 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2235 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent claim for a wireless-communications system is not obvious merely because each step in a proposed development could be taken. The court must ask…
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| 19 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1498 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Abuse of process in phased litigation requires a broad, merits-based assessment of whether raising the point later misuses the court’s process. The fact that a…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 999 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In determining FRAND terms for a global SEP cross-licence, the court should begin with the most comparable licence available. A licence to the same portfolio…
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| 25 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 355 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a share sale agreement with a fixed completion date and place, delivery and payment are presumed to be concurrent conditions. The parties may agree…
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| 20 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 665 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A claimant seeking remuneration for capital-introduction services must prove the existence and terms of any alleged contract, including the identity of the…
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| 6 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 514 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In managing related proceedings, the court must balance the parties’ contingent interests in prompt and cost-efficient justice against the interests of other…
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| 18 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3331 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
An ITU-T patent licensing declaration creates an enforceable contract for the benefit of third parties. Its obligation is to make a RAND offer capable of…
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| 21 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3083 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
An anti-anti-suit injunction is an exceptional remedy. Its grant is never automatic and cannot follow merely because another case presents similar facts. Each…
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1 |
| 5 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2834 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In an application for an interim injunction in pharmaceutical patent litigation, the court must apply the American Cyanamid principles to the evidence in the…
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| 31 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1383 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A standard-essential patent owner does not act in bad faith merely by using properly available infringement proceedings to press for determination of fair…
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4 |
| 23 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 936 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In patent obviousness appeals, the Court of Appeal should intervene only for an error of law or principle in the trial judge’s multifactorial, fact-sensitive…
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