Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Payne Hicks Beach acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 432 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A person who knowingly organises, authorises or materially assists a sustained campaign of public and online accusations may be liable for both libel and…
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| 19 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3494 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The natural and ordinary meaning of allegedly defamatory words is the single meaning conveyed to the ordinary reasonable reader of the publication as a whole.…
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22 |
| 13 Feb 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 128 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A novation may be inferred from conduct where all parties consent and the inference is required to give business efficacy to what occurred. It may replace only…
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10 |
| 14 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 3900 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Meaning in a libel publication is determined from the overall impact of the words in context, as understood by the ordinary, reasonable reader. Sufficiently…
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10 |
| 27 Jan 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 29 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On a capability application, a court should exclude a defamatory meaning only at a high threshold. It must exercise caution and adopt a generous view of the…
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7 |
| 18 Jan 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 63 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A claim in unlawful means conspiracy based on deceit must plead a clear and concise account of the essential facts, including the alleged dishonest acts, the…
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6 |
| 22 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1356 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A prescriptive easement is acquired through more than 20 years’ uninterrupted use nec vi, nec clam, nec precario. Those three requirements are exhaustive; the…
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5 |
| 8 Dec 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 3052 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A repairing covenant requiring premises to be delivered up in good and substantial repair does not require perfect or pristine condition. The relevant standard…
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5 |
| 19 Feb 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 143 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 11(3) of the Copyright Act 1956 does not require contributors to intend to become joint authors. It requires collaboration in producing the work and…
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4 |
| 14 Jan 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 29 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Successful parties generally recover their costs, but the court may make separate provision for costs caused by an abandoned or unsuccessful issue. Indemnity…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2623 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For judicial review, time runs from the date the challenged decision was made, not the date the claimant learned of it. Later explanations do not restart time…
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| 17 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1813 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Directing a preliminary issue is a broad case-management discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, but it should be exercised cautiously. The issue…
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| 26 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1599 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Litigation costs incurred in proceedings are generally recoverable only through the applicable costs regime, not as substantive damages in the same or later…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1500 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A former director remains subject to the statutory continuing duty in Companies Act 2006 s 170(2)(a) concerning property, information or opportunities known to…
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| 16 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 815 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For an individual voluntary arrangement to be approved, the debtor must make full and frank disclosure of relevant matters and creditors must be treated in…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 357 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual commission is payable where an investment satisfies the agreed definitions when the investment is made. “Synthetic asset backed securities” may…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 327 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court has no power under Civil Procedure Rules 1998 rule 3.1(2)(g) to stay arbitral proceedings. The court’s intervention in an arbitration is limited to…
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| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 90 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court has a discretion as to costs. Although the usual rule is that the unsuccessful party pays the successful party’s costs, a proportionate reduction may…
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| 20 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 82 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to amend a statement of case is a broad case-management discretion governed by the overriding objective. The court must weigh the injustice to the…
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| 16 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 72 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual share option is construed by applying ordinary principles of contractual interpretation. There is no special rule requiring options to be…
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| 8 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3211 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A freezing order protects against unjustified dissipation of assets, not against the risk that a defendant may be unable to satisfy a judgment. The applicant…
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| 2 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1223 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an appeal from the Family Division, the general costs rule does not apply, but the successful party’s success may remain the decisive factor where there is…
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Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Payne Hicks Beach 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 Payne Hicks Beach. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.