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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 566 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The criterion for a payment on account of costs is a reasonable sum. An irreducible minimum is not the governing test. The court should estimate likely…
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90 |
| 5 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company is not a quasi-partnership merely because it is a successful family business. Equitable constraints on legal shareholder rights require a mutual…
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35 |
| 1 Jul 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 647 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A follow-on damages claim under section 47A of the Competition Act 1998 must rest on a clearly identifiable regulatory determination that the conduct relied…
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11 |
| 28 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 880 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The power under section 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 supports substantive foreign court proceedings. It does not support foreign…
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10 |
| 19 Jan 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 2 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a follow-on competition damages claim, the Competition Appeal Tribunal is bound by clearly identifiable findings of fact made by the regulator, unless it…
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10 |
| 20 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3383 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An award may be set aside under section 68(2)(g) of the Arbitration Act 1996 only where fraud in the arbitration caused, or will cause, substantial injustice.…
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3 |
| 10 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2805 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Legal advice privilege extends beyond communications themselves to material that reproduces, summarises or otherwise reveals their substance. A document is…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 20 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3059 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a contractual “battle of the forms”, the court must examine the contemporaneous documents and conduct as a whole. The “last shot” doctrine does not apply…
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| 17 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1839 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Norwich Pharmacal relief is exceptional and flexible, but an order must be necessary in, or further, the interests of justice. It is not available merely to…
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| 26 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 981 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An injunction restraining misuse of confidential information remains discretionary even after default judgment. Disclosure or reference to confidential…
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2 |
| 8 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EAT 9 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An employer seeking to justify indirect discrimination must establish, through a critical and thorough assessment, that the provision, criterion or practice is…
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| 17 Mar 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1521 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of Companies Act 2006, s.190, an “arrangement” is inherently flexible and may include a coherent package of agreements, even where the…
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| 28 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 425 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For summary judgment in a breach of confidence claim, the court asks whether the defendant has a real prospect of successfully defending the claim. Used…
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| 7 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2507 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Indemnity costs are exceptional, but may be ordered where the conduct of the litigation or the circumstances of the case take it outside the norm. A…
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| 7 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2461 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A professionally negotiated commercial contract is construed principally by its text, read with the relevant contractual provisions, purpose, factual…
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| 23 Apr 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 1039 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An anti-suit injunction will ordinarily be granted where foreign proceedings breach a binding arbitration agreement, unless the respondent establishes strong…
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1 |
| 12 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 26 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an application applying the CPR Pt 24 approach, summary judgment is appropriate where the defendant has no real prospect of successfully defending the claim…
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| 5 Jun 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 1380 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Where the tax treatment of damages is uncertain, the court may gross up the award to guard against under-compensation, provided an undertaking or other…
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| 24 May 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1327 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2008, the relevant question is whether information or documents are reasonably required for checking a taxpayer’s tax…
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Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 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 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.