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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Lewis Silkin LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 21 Nov 2012 |
[2012] UKSC 55 · Supreme Court
A Norwich Pharmacal disclosure order must be a necessary and proportionate response to the circumstances. The court must balance the applicant’s interest in…
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| 30 Jul 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 2242 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 requires a claimant to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that publication has caused serious reputational harm or…
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38 |
| 12 Sep 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1334 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 raises the common-law threshold for defamation from substantial to serious reputational harm. It does not otherwise…
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36 |
| 26 Jun 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 619 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In discrimination proceedings, disclosure should be ordered only where it is necessary for fairly disposing of the proceedings. Relevance is a factor, but it…
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32 |
| 31 Jan 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 110 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trade mark infringement by likelihood of confusion requires a global and contextual assessment through the eyes of the average consumer. The court must…
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28 |
| 21 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 855 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An agreement to arbitrate may cover an unfair-prejudice dispute under Companies Act 2006 s 994. The statutory right to petition is not inalienable. Such…
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25 |
| 30 Apr 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 437 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where related contracts contain different governing-law and jurisdiction clauses, there is no presumption that the clause in one contract captures disputes…
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24 |
| 28 Feb 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 236 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning inspector may depart from an earlier decision concerning a materially similar proposal, because each inspector must exercise an independent planning…
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23 |
| 16 Apr 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 480 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Expedition requires real, objectively assessed urgency and a good reason for giving the proceedings priority over other court business. The court must consider…
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15 |
| 17 Dec 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 3241 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An employee who removes confidential business information for possible use in future disputes is ordinarily in breach of the duty of good faith and any…
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11 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1991 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An obligation in a payment-services contract requiring a customer to maintain a reserve is a continuing primary obligation, not an accrued right, unless the…
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| 22 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1872 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Amendment applications require a case-specific exercise of discretion under the overriding objective. The court weighs fairness, prejudice, reasons and…
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| 13 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1754 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For Unfair Contracts Act 1977 section 27(1), a choice of English law does not prevent disapplication where, absent that choice, Rome I would select foreign…
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| 18 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1477 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a party asserts that regulatory or legal obligations prevent payment after contractual rights have been determined, the court should not exclude that…
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| 6 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1056 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a summary judgment application, the unsuccessful applicant will ordinarily pay the respondent’s costs. That starting point may be adjusted where the…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EAT 55 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Where contractual documents direct a defined group of employees to a separate handbook for details of overtime payments, the natural construction may exclude…
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| 19 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 139 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
At common law, presence in England and Wales at the time of service is a substantive jurisdictional requirement grounded in territoriality. Compliance with the…
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1 |
| 19 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EAT 12 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
For capability dismissals, the relevant work is ordinarily the work which the employee is contractually employed to perform. A progression-based requirement to…
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| 13 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 43 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a summary judgment application involving contractual construction, the court may decide a short point of law where the evidence is sufficient and the…
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| 4 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3167 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A descriptive trade mark may retain distinctive character where a significant proportion of the relevant public recognises it as indicating commercial origin.…
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| 6 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2897 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A director’s duty to promote a company’s success is assessed subjectively. The question is whether the director honestly believed that the relevant conduct was…
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| 1 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2506 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Specific disclosure requires more than a showing that documents may be relevant. The applicant must establish that the documents are within the respondent’s…
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Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Lewis Silkin LLP 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 Lewis Silkin LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.