Law firm

Lansbury Worthington

Lansbury Worthington is named as solicitors in at least 62 UK judgments from 2009 to 2026, most often in extradition and public and administrative law.

62
judgments
13
in the last five years

Practice areas

  • Extradition57
  • Public and administrative law50
  • Civil liberties and human rights9
  • Immigration and asylum2
  • Crime1

Courts

  • High Court62

Counsel most often instructed

  • George Hepburne Scott5
  • Malcolm Hawkes5
  • Myles Grandison5
  • Graeme Hall4
  • K O'Raghallaigh4
  • Mary Westcott4
  • Abigail Bright3
  • M HAWKES3

Judgments by year

  • 20262
  • 20251
  • 20243
  • 20231
  • 20226
  • 20214
  • 20205
  • 20192
  • 20187
  • 20175
  • 20166
  • 20158
  • 20148
  • 20132
  • 20120
  • 20111
  • 20100
  • 20091

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Lansbury Worthington acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
21 Dec 2016
[2016] EWHC 3309 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A person subject to a suspended sentence is a fugitive for passage-of-time purposes where he knowingly breaches conditions intended to keep him within reach of…
17
14 Oct 2015
[2015] EWHC 3098 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In deciding whether extradition is disproportionate under Article 8, the court must weigh the strong public interest in extradition against the requested…
12
24 Feb 2014
[2014] EWHC 437 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An extradition court has a limited implied abuse-of-process jurisdiction. Bad faith by the requesting authorities is required; confusion, inadequate…
11
27 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1305 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal against extradition, a proportionality decision under article 8 is reviewed for whether it was wrong, without any requirement that it was plainly…
9
27 Feb 2020
[2020] EWHC 604 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 82 of the Extradition Act 2003, extradition may be barred where delay makes it unjust or oppressive. Unjustness principally concerns prejudice in…
8
6 Feb 2020
[2020] EWHC 191 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In assessing whether extradition is disproportionate, the court must evaluate the conduct alleged rather than rely mechanically on offence categories or the…
8
10 Apr 2019
[2019] EWHC 883 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of s 20 of the Extradition Act 2003, a person convicted in absence may be extradited where the requesting state establishes deliberate absence…
6
20 Nov 2017
[2017] EWHC 3161 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 25 of the Extradition Act 2003 requires a fact-sensitive assessment of whether extradition would be unjust or oppressive, consistently with fundamental…
5
14 Nov 2014
[2014] EWHC 4275 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a mixed extradition warrant, fugitive status and the effect of delay must be assessed separately for each conviction and accusation offence. A person…
5
6 Nov 2019
[2019] EWHC 2938 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of section 20 of the Extradition Act 2003, construed compatibly with Article 4a of the Framework Decision, the relevant trial is the last…
5

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
22 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1839 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where a possible retrial may require an extradited person to leave the prison covered by an existing assurance, the Article 3 risk can be addressed by an…
10 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 234 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Permission to appeal in extradition proceedings depends on whether the proposed ground is reasonably arguable. Where extradition is subject to prison…
14 Mar 2025
[2025] EWHC 600 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An extradition appeal is concerned with whether the district judge was wrong in the legally recognised sense. It is not a rehearing or an opportunity to…
2
27 Nov 2024
[2024] EWHC 3041 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A qualifying curfew is capable in law of reducing the public interest in extradition. Its effect is fact-sensitive. The court must assess the weight of the…
9 Jul 2024
[2024] EWHC 1768 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an Article 8 extradition appeal, the public interest in extradition carries great weight, although its weight varies with the nature and seriousness of the…
3
2 Dec 2022
[2022] EWHC 3088 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the organised-crime participation offence, the territorial requirement is satisfied only if at least one act or omission comprising the accused person’s…
7 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 1760 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a renewed application for permission to appeal an extradition decision, the court must consider whether the proposed Article 8 challenge is reasonably…
16 Jun 2022
[2022] EWHC 1508 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an extradition case involving alleged prison and immigration-detention conditions, an Article 3 claim requires evidence showing a real and sufficiently…
27 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1305 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal against extradition, a proportionality decision under article 8 is reviewed for whether it was wrong, without any requirement that it was plainly…
9
5 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1054 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When substantive issues are compromised but costs remain disputed, the court may determine costs without a trial if it has sufficient agreed or reliable…
28 May 2021
[2021] EWHC 1437 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under Part 50 of the Criminal Procedure Rules, the listed exceptions to the general requirement for a public hearing govern applications concerning extradition…
23 Apr 2021
[2021] EWHC 958 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of Extradition Act 2003, a person is convicted in their presence where the court finally determines guilt and imposes the sentence at a…
2

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Lansbury Worthington: Vienna Kang Advocates Ltd.

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Lansbury Worthington is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Lansbury Worthington. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.