Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases PCB Byrne acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 26 Jun 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 44 · Supreme Court
Where no service convention or bilateral treaty applies, the court asks whether, in all the circumstances, there is a good reason retrospectively to validate…
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118 |
| 20 Jun 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 808 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Piercing the corporate veil may justify a discretionary remedy where a controller has misused a company as a façade to conceal wrongdoing. It does not make the…
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67 |
| 29 Oct 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3073 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Fraud must be distinctly alleged and supported by pleaded primary facts which make dishonesty more likely than innocence or negligence. Those facts need…
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60 |
| 30 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 908 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
CPR 25.13(2)(c) applies to an unlimited company as well as a limited company. Its unqualified reference to a company or other body cannot be read down by…
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35 |
| 27 Jun 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 855 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The foreign act of state doctrine does not prevent an English court from examining whether a foreign judicial decision, or the foreign judicial system that…
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33 |
| 30 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1802 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant resides in a non-Convention state, security for costs must be ordered on objectively justified and non-discriminatory grounds. A real risk of…
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30 |
| 26 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 2633 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A transfer is within section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 if defeating or prejudicing creditors was a real and substantial purpose. That purpose need not be…
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28 |
| 18 May 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1321 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Subscription applications for an investment scheme are not ordinarily subject to implied conditions precedent which are unclear, evaluative or concern future…
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27 |
| 28 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3221 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to amend pleadings is a fact-sensitive exercise requiring a fair balance between the applicant’s ability to present the real dispute and prejudice…
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24 |
| 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…
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18 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 12 Oct 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2509 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Choice of law must be determined issue by issue. Where the Rome Regulations apply, their scope is determined autonomously; describing a claim or remedy as…
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| 22 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2259 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A distinct contractual claim for late-completion compensation must be identified in the claim form or particulars of claim and supported by the material facts.…
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| 22 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 1172 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A free-standing application for a freezing injunction is not a claim under Senior Courts Act 1981, section 37(1), for the purpose of the enactment gateway in…
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| 15 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1423 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A stay of enforcement under CPR 83.7 requires special circumstances or inability to pay. Commercial disadvantage alone is insufficient unless there is a…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1236 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Foreign insolvency assignees who alone have authority under the foreign insolvency law to conduct proceedings may be joined under Civil Procedure Rules 1998 r…
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| 12 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 589 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For anti-suit relief on vexatious or oppressive grounds, an English court’s sufficient interest is not a free-standing factor to be balanced against comity. It…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 870 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A seller may serve a notice to complete only if ready, able and willing to perform the substantive obligations falling due on completion. Chattels included in…
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| 11 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 272 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court has a discretion to admit further evidence after trial, but exercises it cautiously. The discretion is informed by the principles that parties should…
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| 11 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 242 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Foreign judgments in personam are enforceable at common law where the foreign court had jurisdiction by the defendant’s presence or residence when proceedings…
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| 6 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 56 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An uncompleted, specifically enforceable contract for the sale of land can confer a beneficial interest on the purchaser as between the contracting parties…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 154 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For disclosure purposes, a company director may have legal control of documents held by the company where the director has an enforceable right to possess…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 153 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Permission to serve a Chabra freezing-order application out of the jurisdiction requires an applicable gateway under CPR Practice Direction 6B. A post-judgment…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, PCB Byrne: Byrne & Partners, PCB Litigation LLP, Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which PCB Byrne 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 PCB Byrne. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.