Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Ontier LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 16 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 2526 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A statutory derivative claim under Part 11 of the Companies Act 2006 must arise from a director’s negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust. It…
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31 |
| 27 Jul 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 39 · Supreme Court
“Sculpture” bears its ordinary meaning under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. Artistic quality is irrelevant, but the object must possess an…
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24 |
| 3 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 83 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application challenging service outside the jurisdiction, the court may decide a question of law but need not do so. It should avoid determining…
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12 |
| 25 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 3538 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When deciding whether England is the clearly or distinctly most appropriate forum for a foreign defendant, the court must assess the claim in the context of…
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11 |
| 13 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 1780 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Article 27 of the Judgments Regulation applies only where proceedings involve the same parties, or materially identical parties, the same cause of action and…
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9 |
| 10 Feb 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 191 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
There is one civil standard of proof: the balance of probabilities. Serious allegations do not require a heightened standard or automatically more cogent…
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9 |
| 16 Oct 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 1331 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An accounting party bears the legal burden of justifying discharges, while the beneficiary must prove any surcharge. The accounting party need not support…
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5 |
| 3 Nov 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3154 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A defendant who has submitted to the jurisdiction by conduct cannot later raise a jurisdiction objection merely because another forum has become tactically…
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4 |
| 31 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 1878 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Three-dimensional articles made for use as film props are not necessarily sculptures or works of artistic craftsmanship. The decisive question is the purpose…
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4 |
| 26 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 892 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Defamation damages must compensate for actual reputational harm and provide appropriate vindication. In assessing them at trial, the court may consider…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 20 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 52 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An assignee who takes the benefit of contractual rights takes it subject to the contractual burdens and limitations attached to those rights. This may require…
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| 26 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 892 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Defamation damages must compensate for actual reputational harm and provide appropriate vindication. In assessing them at trial, the court may consider…
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3 |
| 25 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1893 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Findings of fact made by another court are inadmissible in a subsequent trial as evidence of their truth. A party cannot avoid that rule by pleading earlier…
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| 3 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 83 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application challenging service outside the jurisdiction, the court may decide a question of law but need not do so. It should avoid determining…
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12 |
| 21 Dec 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 3343 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A claimant who has established defamation may nevertheless receive only nominal damages where, by the date of assessment, a public judgment has exposed…
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1 |
| 23 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2982 (SCCO) · High Court: Senior Courts Costs Office
A party who wishes to participate actively in English civil proceedings must identify itself. That requirement applies even where the party becomes involved…
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| 9 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2970 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to appeal, granted because an earlier decision has a real prospect of being wrong, does not itself establish a serious issue to be tried on the…
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1 |
| 21 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2784 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The discretion to stay or adjourn proceedings under CPR 3.1(2)(b) and (f) is open-ended and must be exercised in accordance with the overriding objective. The…
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| 17 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1181 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
On an application for summary judgment, the court must decide whether the claim has a realistic, rather than fanciful, prospect of success without conducting a…
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| 25 Mar 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 667 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction requires a serious issue to be tried on the merits, a good arguable case within a jurisdictional…
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2 |
| 12 Feb 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 573 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A pleading will not be struck out merely because it uses a narrative, sampling exercise or global claim. Primary facts may be pleaded from which the court…
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1 |
| 15 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 28 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For article 27 of the Lugano Convention to require a court second seised to decline jurisdiction, the proceedings must have the same parties, cause and object.…
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