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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Lee & Thompson LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 9 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 1645 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joint authorship requires collaboration pursuant to a common design, authorial contributions sufficient to express each contributor’s own intellectual…
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86 |
| 28 Feb 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 379 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the High Court may order an internet service provider to block access to a website where the…
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15 |
| 20 Feb 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 268 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Users of a peer-to-peer file-sharing service infringe copyright when they download protected works and make them available for uploading to other users. Such…
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11 |
| 27 Jan 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 29 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On a capability application, a court should exclude a defamatory meaning only at a high threshold. It must exercise caution and adopt a generous view of the…
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7 |
| 2 May 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1152 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The High Court may grant a website-blocking injunction under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 where the applicant establishes that…
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6 |
| 18 Mar 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 575 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright in broadcasts and films protects the broadcaster’s or producer’s investment. Whether a part is substantial is assessed quantitatively and…
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5 |
| 31 May 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1522 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
There is one civil standard of proof: the balance of probabilities. Allegations of dishonesty do not require an enhanced standard, although inherent…
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5 |
| 16 Apr 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 677 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Editorial discretion cannot make an interference with privacy lawful unless publication can be justified logically and rationally by the public interest…
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4 |
| 11 Oct 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 2572 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
For honest comment, the words must be comment rather than fact, based on facts which are true or protected by privilege, and represent an opinion which an…
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4 |
| 8 Feb 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 134 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment may determine a pure contractual construction issue where the court reaches a clear view and evidence cannot realistically produce a different…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 911 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A claimant alleging conversion of chattels must establish possession or an immediate right to possession. Ownership alone is neither necessary nor sufficient.…
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| 13 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1117 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On applications for strike-out and reverse summary judgment, the court must first ask whether the pleaded facts, assumed to be provable, disclose a complete…
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| 20 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3338 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application for summary judgment, the court may decide a short point of law or construction where the evidence is sufficient and the claim has no…
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| 21 Jun 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1554 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Whether an agent holds sale proceeds on trust depends on the parties’ objectively ascertained intention from the agreement and relevant surrounding…
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| 28 Jun 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1577 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Redactions to a judgment are exceptional. They require powerful reasons supported by cogent evidence directed to the specific information. Redactions must be…
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3 |
| 19 May 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 1242 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
In determining a consequential authorship credit, the court should make an overall merits-based assessment directed to the fairest and most accurate reflection…
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| 11 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 24 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Joint authorship of a screenplay does not depend on who typed the words or had the final say. The question is whether the parties collaborated with a common…
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4 |
| 17 Dec 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3481 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual restriction preventing a grantor from dealing with rights during an exclusive option period is breached by granting a competing option over the…
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| 9 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 1645 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joint authorship requires collaboration pursuant to a common design, authorial contributions sufficient to express each contributor’s own intellectual…
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86 |
| 16 Apr 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 677 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Editorial discretion cannot make an interference with privacy lawful unless publication can be justified logically and rationally by the public interest…
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4 |
| 1 Feb 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 165 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An oral contract may be made without written formalities. The absence of a written record concerns proof rather than validity. In a substantial commercial…
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2 |
| 20 Sep 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2542 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Disclosure must be confined to documents relevant to the issues for trial and proportionate to those issues. Documents directed solely to the general…
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Earlier names
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