Law firm

Lawrence Stephens

Lawrence Stephens is named as solicitors in at least 23 UK judgments from 2006 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and civil fraud and asset recovery.

23
judgments
10
in the last five years
1
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes10
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery4
  • Trusts, wills and private client3
  • Employment2
  • Cross-border disputes2
  • Real estate2
  • Company and partnership2
  • Professional discipline and regulation2

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)1
  • High Court20
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal1
  • Upper Tribunal1

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20254
  • 20243
  • 20232
  • 20220
  • 20210
  • 20201
  • 20192
  • 20180
  • 20170
  • 20160
  • 20152
  • 20142
  • 20131
  • 20120
  • 20111
  • 20100
  • 20092
  • 20081
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Lawrence Stephens acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
21 Oct 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 1090 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an appeal against professional disciplinary findings, fresh evidence is admitted only where the appellate discretion, viewed in the light of the overriding…
5

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
18 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 641 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual purchase-price formula must be construed objectively and as a whole. Where additions are made for assets and deductions for liabilities or…
19 Sep 2025
[2025] EWHC 2386 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application for an interim injunction restraining a senior employee from competing with, or undermining, his employer, the court applies the American…
11 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1664 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A proprietary claim may be maintained to recover stolen cryptocurrency, or traceable proceeds, where the assets remain identifiable through conventional…
4 Apr 2025
[2025] EWHC 828 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining the meaning of allegedly defamatory words, the court must identify a single, constant and unfluctuating meaning, without over-analysis. The…
19 Nov 2024
[2024] EWHC 3282 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an assessment following judgment after striking out a defence, the court determines the claimant’s contractual entitlement from the pleadings and admissible…
5 Sep 2024
[2024] EWHC 2313 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
At a return hearing for a worldwide freezing order, the court may continue the order to trial where proper notice has been given, the respondents have not…
9 Feb 2024
[2024] UKUT 26 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Where reliable, near-contemporaneous transactional evidence exists for the subject short lease, its value without statutory lease-extension rights should…
1
8 Sep 2023
[2023] EWHC 2153 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to continue a derivative claim involves a two-stage process. At the second stage, the court must make an overall, provisional assessment of the…
22 Mar 2023
[2023] EAT 34 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Legal advice privilege may extend to a communication made through an agent, but only where the agent is no more than a means of communication between client…
23 Jan 2020
[2020] EWHC 281 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A consent order may be varied under CPR 3.1(7) only where there has been a material change of circumstances or the facts underlying the order were misstated.…
31 May 2019
[2019] EWHC 1806 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court may give judgment on the merits before trial where the circumstances make that a proper exercise of discretion. Relevant considerations include the…
16 Jan 2019
[2019] EWHC 17 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application concerning service and jurisdiction, a party relying on a disputed foreign jurisdiction agreement must establish the validity of that…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Lawrence Stephens 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 Lawrence Stephens. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.