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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Linklaters LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Nov 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 50 · Supreme Court
Contractual interpretation is a unitary and objective exercise. The court identifies what a reasonable person, possessing the background knowledge reasonably…
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| 22 May 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 446 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 2(4) of the European Communities Act 1972 requires domestic legislation to be construed, so far as possible, consistently with directly effective…
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55 |
| 5 Aug 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 883 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 32(1)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, a relevant concealed fact is one without which the cause of action is incomplete. Facts which merely…
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45 |
| 21 Oct 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1409 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A mortgagee may decide whether and when to sell mortgaged property in its own interests. It has no duty to postpone sale, obtain planning permission, grant a…
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39 |
| 27 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1371 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patentability exclusions require a four-step inquiry: construe the claim, identify the actual contribution, ask whether it consists solely of excluded subject…
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34 |
| 24 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1834 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A long-term coexistence agreement governed by German law was to be construed by reference to the parties’ objectively ascertained intention, the agreement’s…
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33 |
| 21 Aug 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 2477 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, r 35.1, expert evidence must be assessed against each pleaded issue unless that issue has been excluded from the case.…
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30 |
| 6 Nov 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1161 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 may compromise or rearrange rights between a company and its creditors in their capacity as…
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29 |
| 9 Mar 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 484 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For a claim under the Misrepresentation Act 1967, a credit rating and accurate scenario analysis do not, without more, represent that a complex financial…
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27 |
| 13 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWCA Civ 14 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claim form served under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 must be sealed by the court. Under electronic working, a claim form is not ready for service until it…
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27 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 24 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1563 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court may sanction a creditor scheme where the statutory requirements and formalities are satisfied, the class has been fairly represented, the scheme is…
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| 19 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1467 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a scheme of arrangement, the court need only identify any obvious jurisdictional impediment. It must be satisfied that the company…
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| 12 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 589 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For anti-suit relief on vexatious or oppressive grounds, an English court’s sufficient interest is not a free-standing factor to be balanced against comity. It…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1021 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a sale of business, a warranty that a key contract is not being renegotiated is engaged where a customer has invoked a contractual price-match mechanism and…
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| 17 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 615 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contractual meaning is determined from the words used in their relevant context. Commercial purpose cannot justify replacing a deliberate categorical…
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| 8 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3158 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where the highest relevant foreign court has repeatedly determined an issue of foreign law, an English court should follow that law unless the evidence shows…
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| 21 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1472 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For a non-contractual obligation arising from unfair competition affecting only a specific competitor, Rome II Regulation directs attention to the law of the…
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| 27 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2887 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An administration order may be made only where the company is unable, or likely to become unable, to pay its debts, administration is reasonably likely to…
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| 15 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2644 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In an environmental impact assessment, the scope and level of detail required are matters of evaluative judgment for the decision-maker. The court will…
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| 19 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2376 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Licence fee damages may be awarded for infringement of trade mark rights where the loss is properly measured by the economic value of the right as an asset.…
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| 1 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2237 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In construing pension scheme rules, significant weight is given to the words chosen by the draftsman. Purposive construction, business common sense and…
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| 14 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1106 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application for a payment on account of costs, the court must order a reasonable sum, not automatically the irreducible minimum or a fixed percentage of…
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