Law firm

Moore Barlow

Moore Barlow is named as solicitors in at least 89 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in family and children and trusts, wills and private client.

89
judgments
19
in the last five years
3
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
18
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Family and children18
  • Trusts, wills and private client15
  • Public and administrative law14
  • Real estate11
  • Commercial disputes9
  • Court of Protection and mental health9
  • Company and partnership7
  • Civil liberties and human rights6

Courts

  • Supreme Court3
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)18
  • High Court68

Counsel most often instructed

  • James Hall6
  • Amanda Tipples4
  • Bruno Quintavalle4
  • Charles Foster3
  • Rebecca Page3
  • Stuart Cutting3

Judgments by year

  • 20262
  • 20252
  • 20244
  • 20238
  • 20223
  • 20214
  • 20207
  • 20197
  • 201810
  • 20172
  • 20161
  • 20153
  • 20147
  • 20131
  • 20126
  • 20112
  • 20103
  • 20091
  • 20084
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Moore Barlow acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
6 Jun 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 932 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The reasonableness of an offer to purchase a minority shareholding is a fact-sensitive part of the overall assessment of unfair prejudice. No single feature is…
126
6 May 2015
[2015] EWHC 1271 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Composite marks must be compared as wholes, with likelihood of confusion assessed globally. An element may retain an independent distinctive role only where…
16
13 Oct 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 1095 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an arm’s-length property transaction, an oral agreement may support a constructive trust despite Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989…
13
17 Feb 2010
[2010] EWHC 283 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application to enforce an adjudicator’s decision, summary judgment should be refused where a defence has a real, although weak, prospect of success and…
12
14 Dec 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 1664 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An acknowledged factual error in a judgment should ordinarily be corrected after both parties have had an opportunity to make submissions. An appellate court…
10
31 Mar 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 471 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Relief for bribery or a secret commission does not depend on proving a fiduciary relationship. The essential question is whether the recipient owed a duty to…
10
4 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 1721 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning officer’s report is not unlawful merely because it omits information or gives limited reasons. The question is whether, read fairly and as a whole…
5
15 Dec 2011
[2011] EWHC 3542 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to set aside a statutory demand, security must be valued on the basis of its immediate forced-sale value. A creditor is not entitled to rely…
4
29 Jul 2016
[2016] EWCA Civ 790 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a divisible, dose-related disease such as asbestosis, a claimant need not show that the defendant’s exposure produced a separately measurable change in…
4
28 Mar 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 287 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In assessing dependency damages for a tortious death, the court must identify the benefits that would probably have accrued had the tort not occurred. A…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
8 May 2026
[2026] EWHC 1088 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Permission to amend a pleading is discretionary and must be determined under the overriding objective. A very late amendment which threatens a fixed trial date…
9 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3205 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Summary judgment may be granted where the claimant’s case has no realistic prospect of success and there is no other compelling reason for trial. The court…
23 Feb 2024
[2024] EWHC 390 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A general practitioner may breach the duty of care where the presenting history and observed behaviour disclose the combination of fever, headache and…
22 Feb 2024
[2024] EWHC 358 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning decision may be quashed for material error of fact where the decision-maker misunderstood an existing, objectively verifiable fact, the claimant was…
30 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 3113 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where registered charges have been discharged by mistake, the court may rescind the discharges and direct alteration of the register. Such an order is not a…
17 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 2877 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contract for difference must be construed objectively, having regard to its language, the agreement as a whole, the admissible factual matrix and commercial…
2
25 Oct 2023
[2023] EWHC 2644 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Fraudulent misrepresentations that induce a contract remain actionable despite an entire-agreement or non-reliance clause unless the contract uses clear words…
23 Oct 2023
[2023] EWHC 2726 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A mistaken discharge of security may be rescinded in equity where the claimant made a distinct, causative mistake as to fact or legal effect, and the mistake…
28 Jul 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 909 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a company seeks interim protection against directors or shareholders for alleged breaches of fiduciary or contractual duties, the court must assess the…
1
3 Oct 2022
[2022] EWHC 2452 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Liability under section 2(2) of the Animals Act 1971 is strict, but each statutory condition must be proved. Under section 2(2)(a), whether damage or severe…
16 Sep 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 1241 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an appeal from a fact-finding judgment in a road-traffic negligence claim, the Court of Appeal will not rehear the evidence or substitute findings merely…
1
26 Apr 2021
[2021] EWHC 960 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Costs in unfair prejudice proceedings remain governed by the ordinary discretionary principles. The starting point is that costs follow the event, but the…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Moore Barlow: Barlow Robbins, Barlows.

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