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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Pattinson & Brewer acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Dec 2010 |
[2010] UKSC 53 · Supreme Court
The defence of honest comment requires the publication to identify, expressly or by implication, at least the general facts on which the comment is based. It…
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50 |
| 26 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 2958 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a libel action, meaning is determined objectively by the single meaning that the hypothetical reasonable reader would take from the publication as a whole…
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8 |
| 30 Nov 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 1217 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Strike out and summary judgment serve different functions. Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, strike out concerns whether the pleaded facts could support a…
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5 |
| 28 Sep 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2491 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In exercising the costs discretion, the starting point remains that the unsuccessful party pays the successful party’s costs. A departure is justified where…
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5 |
| 3 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 42 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A police officer may be recalled to duty between rostered tours without receiving a specific instruction at the time. A recall occurs where the officer’s…
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4 |
| 1 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1249 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A claimant who is not a party to underlying litigation cannot infer a contractual retainer merely because the defendant’s legal team also communicates with or…
|
3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 6 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For worker status under the Employment Rights Act 1996, the question is whether the individual works under a contract personally to perform services for…
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| 3 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2254 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
The statutory definition of an employment agency requires a business to provide services for the purpose of finding persons employment or supplying employers…
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| 21 Apr 2022 |
[2022] EAT 117 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
In a conduct dismissal, an employment tribunal must decide fairness under section 98(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 by applying the standards of the…
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| 18 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 2266 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Civil Procedure Rules 1998 Part 36 is a self-contained and highly prescriptive code. An offer to pay or accept a sum of money must comply with rule 36.5 in its…
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1 |
| 29 Nov 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3265 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In determining meaning in a defamation claim, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning that the ordinary reasonable reader would derive…
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| 28 Sep 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2491 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In exercising the costs discretion, the starting point remains that the unsuccessful party pays the successful party’s costs. A departure is justified where…
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5 |
| 25 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 1917 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a clinical negligence claim, causation is determined on the balance of probabilities by comparing the actual course with the counterfactual course that…
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1 |
| 30 Nov 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 1217 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Strike out and summary judgment serve different functions. Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, strike out concerns whether the pleaded facts could support a…
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5 |
| 26 Jan 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 104 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
On an appeal from a case-management decision refusing a late amendment, the appellate court must respect the generous ambit of the first-instance discretion.…
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1 |
| 1 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1249 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A claimant who is not a party to underlying litigation cannot infer a contractual retainer merely because the defendant’s legal team also communicates with or…
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3 |
| 3 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 42 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A police officer may be recalled to duty between rostered tours without receiving a specific instruction at the time. A recall occurs where the officer’s…
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4 |
| 29 Jan 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 122 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For permanent disablement under regulation A12, the decision-maker must determine whether the officer cannot perform all the ordinary duties of the relevant…
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1 |
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Pattinson & Brewer 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 Pattinson & Brewer. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.