Law firm

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP is named as solicitors in at least 259 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and insolvency and restructuring.

259
judgments
57
in the last five years
7
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
46
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes107
  • Insolvency and restructuring32
  • Company and partnership22
  • Arbitration20
  • Insurance and reinsurance17
  • Cross-border disputes16
  • Public and administrative law16
  • Banking and finance15

Courts

  • Supreme Court6
  • Privy Council1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)46
  • High Court203
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • Andrew Ayres6
  • David Scannell5
  • Philip Shepherd5
  • Akhil Shah4
  • Charles Béar4
  • David Heaton4
  • Edward Cumming4
  • Jonathan Peacock4

Judgments by year

  • 20265
  • 20259
  • 202412
  • 202314
  • 202217
  • 202110
  • 202011
  • 201914
  • 201819
  • 201713
  • 201610
  • 201511
  • 201413
  • 201312
  • 201215
  • 20118
  • 20109
  • 200911
  • 20087
  • 20078

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Norton Rose Fulbright LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
22 Jun 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 843 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A settlement offer made outside Part 36 cannot attract its costs and interest consequences by analogy. The offer remains relevant to the ordinary costs…
48
25 Sep 2013
[2013] EWHC 2876 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When a company faces a real, rather than remote, risk of insolvency, its directors must consider creditors’ interests. Those interests are paramount once the…
42
17 Nov 2003
[2003] EWHC 2743 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A foreign company may be the subject of a creditors’ scheme under section 425 of the Companies Act 1985. The foreign-company winding-up requirements are…
39
14 Jul 2011
[2011] EWHC 1731 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Members of a limited liability partnership do not owe general fiduciary duties to one another merely because they are members. Any fiduciary obligation depends…
39
29 Apr 2005
[2005] EWHC 625 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Norwich Pharmacal relief against an innocent third party is a remedy of last resort. The applicant must show an arguable wrong, a genuine need for information…
36
13 Nov 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1529 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a state has agreed in writing to arbitration, section 9 of the State Immunity Act 1978 removes immunity from proceedings to enforce the resulting award…
28
24 Jan 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 32 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of rule 17.4(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, the court must compare the essential factual bases of the existing and proposed claims. A…
25
18 Oct 2018
[2018] EWHC 2732 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On discontinuance, standard costs remain the norm. Indemnity costs may nevertheless be ordered where the paying party’s conduct, or the circumstances as a…
18
23 Mar 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 330 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Litigation privilege requires litigation to be reasonably in prospect. There must be a real prospect rather than a mere possibility, although litigation need…
18
19 Dec 2017
[2017] EWCA Civ 2175 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent claims are construed purposively in the context of the description and drawings. The inventor’s purpose informs construction, but the language chosen…
16

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
15 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1790 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, expert evidence must be reasonably required to resolve the proceedings. Market-practice evidence may assist contractual…
9 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1733 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 14 of Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, the Secretary of State must address whether replacing assimilated law increases the…
21 Apr 2026
[2026] EWHC 833 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An agreement to discuss remuneration reasonably is not an enforceable agreement to pay a reasonable fee. Where an express contract cannot be established from a…
2 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 479 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Interim relief restraining a public authority from publishing a proposed regulatory decision requires more than a serious issue to be tried. Under Human Rights…
2 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 449 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Whether a contractual time stipulation is a condition is a question of construction, assessed in the contract’s factual and commercial setting. A commercial or…
15 Dec 2025
[2025] EWHC 3266 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is concerned with procedural fairness, not whether an arbitral tribunal reached the correct…
6 Aug 2025
[2025] EWHC 2098 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary judgment application, contractual time limits and notice provisions will not ordinarily bar an accrued payment claim unless the contract uses…
11 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1768 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an uncontested review of a continuing injunction against Persons Unknown, the court should assess whether the injunction has outlasted the compelling need…
5
11 Jul 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 869 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A concerted practice requires concertation, subsequent market conduct and a causal connection. Consensus remains necessary, although it may arise from tacit…
7
27 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1663 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Extensions of time for disclosure should be managed proportionately and by reference to the actual procedural risk. An unless order is a remedy of last resort…
30 May 2025
[2025] EWHC 1330 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A claimant who rejects an unconditional payment which would satisfy the claim ultimately established cannot ordinarily recover pre-judgment interest for the…
12 Mar 2025
[2025] EWHC 562 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A restitutionary quantum meruit requires unjust enrichment analysed through enrichment, transfer at the claimant’s expense, an unjust factor and defences. Mere…
3

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP: Chadbourne & Parke, Fulbright & Jaworski International LLP.

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