Law firm

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP is named as solicitors in at least 54 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and competition and regulated industries.

54
judgments
28
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
12
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes19
  • Competition and regulated industries7
  • Employment6
  • Intellectual property5
  • Arbitration5
  • Company and partnership5
  • Cross-border disputes4
  • Banking and finance4

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)12
  • High Court39
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal2

Counsel most often instructed

  • Shail Patel9
  • Mark Brealey8
  • Calum Mulderrig6
  • Andrew Onslow5
  • PHILIP HINKS4
  • Andrew Lykiardopoulos3
  • Anthony Temple3
  • Derek Spitz3

Judgments by year

  • 20267
  • 20258
  • 20243
  • 20235
  • 20225
  • 20212
  • 20203
  • 20193
  • 20184
  • 20172
  • 20160
  • 20150
  • 20140
  • 20130
  • 20123
  • 20110
  • 20100
  • 20090
  • 20081
  • 20072

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
27 Jan 2012
[2012] EWHC 80 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Senior employees breach duties of fidelity when they covertly organise a competing venture during employment, solicit colleagues or clients, misuse…
36
2 Feb 2012
[2012] EWHC 116 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Springboard relief must fit the facts, restrain the full spectrum of unlawful conduct that created the advantage, and be fair, just and equitable. It may…
36
12 Dec 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 1588 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claimant seeking permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction must have a sustainable cause of action and must identify expressly each cause of…
20
30 Oct 2007
[2007] EWHC 1742 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where an anti-suit, jurisdiction or arbitration clause is breached, the innocent party may recover legal costs reasonably incurred in dealing with the…
17
30 Jun 2022
[2022] EWHC 1742 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In complex group litigation under section 90A of FSMA 2000 and Schedule 10A, a split trial may be ordered as a pragmatic case-management measure where common…
12
26 Jan 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 50 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employment tribunal considering a restriction on open justice under Rule 50 must address the common law interests-of-justice ground separately from…
10
10 Mar 2021
[2021] EWHC 524 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Separate claimants cannot generally be added to an issued but unserved claim form under CPR 17.1, which permits an existing party to amend its own statement of…
8
27 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 2052 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In complex group litigation, sampling may be used as a proportionate means of managing individual issues where structured particulars allow the defendant to…
6
24 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 601 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a claims-made excess policy, incorporated primary-policy terms must be read with the express excess wording and its commercial structure. The primary…
5
10 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1081 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For civil liability under section 90A of Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, where an issuer has directors, the persons discharging managerial…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
28 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1939 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A court may temporarily lift a case-management stay and amend a confidentiality regime where necessary to give practical effect to an appellate order and…
30 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1622 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In large shareholder claims under sections 90 and 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the decision whether to split a trial is an essentially…
17 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1511 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When exercising the power to make a filing modification order under CPR PD 51ZH, the court must balance the value of wider document access in promoting open…
18 May 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 604 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court deciding whether to grant a case management stay may impose a condition removing a term which it has summarily found inconsistent with RAND…
12 May 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 564 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For an implementer’s contractual RAND claim concerning standard-essential patents, the claim may relate wholly to property within the jurisdiction even where…
1
23 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 110 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contract damages are assessed by comparing the claimant’s actual position with the position that performance would have produced. The claimant must prove loss…
18 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3331 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
An ITU-T patent licensing declaration creates an enforceable contract for the benefit of third parties. Its obligation is to make a RAND offer capable of…
1
24 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 3079 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A client-money broker is obliged to comply only with payment instructions falling within the contractual obligation identified from the parties’ express terms…
1
7 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 2898 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An order under section 194 of the Legal Services Act 2007 is discretionary. The amount payable to the prescribed charity need not exactly correspond to the…
22 Aug 2025
[2025] EAT 124 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Whether a disclosure is qualifying depends on the worker’s reasonable belief, assessed in its factual context. An employment tribunal may find that a belief in…
1 Aug 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1054 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual time limit for appealing an arbitral award under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 runs from the date the award is made where the agreement…
15 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1825 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A disclosure provision concerning documents mentioned in evidence is engaged only where the document is referred to, cited, or directly alluded to. A general…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP: Morgan Lewis.

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK 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 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.