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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Penningtons Manches Cooper acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 163 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a voyage charter treats waiting for charterers’ orders as laytime or demurrage, and its payment clause covers all charterers’ purposes so counted, any…
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| 19 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 3525 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A person who entrusts another with publishing campaign material on his behalf may be liable in defamation where the publication is made in performing that…
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38 |
| 9 Nov 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 2789 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An innocent party’s conduct after a contractual breach breaks the chain of causation only if it becomes the true cause of the loss and destroys the causative…
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32 |
| 11 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 1314 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A beneficiary under the doctrine of mutual wills does not claim under the surviving testator’s will and therefore lacks standing under section 50 of the…
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23 |
| 12 May 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 517 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A taxable person loses the right to deduct input VAT under the Sixth Directive only where he knew, or should have known, that his purchase was connected with…
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21 |
| 6 Feb 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 114 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The rule in Hastings-Bass applies only where trustees fail to perform their fiduciary duty in exercising a discretion. A decision cannot be impugned merely…
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15 |
| 13 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1046 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A tribunal determining employment status must identify the parties’ actual legal obligations. A written contract is the usual starting point, but it does not…
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15 |
| 12 Jul 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 25 · Supreme Court
A bank holding a current account in credit must promptly execute a clear payment instruction personally authorised by its customer. Its implied duty of…
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15 |
| 18 Mar 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 718 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual withdrawal clause in a time charter may confer only an option to cancel. It does not necessarily make payment of hire a condition or confer a…
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13 |
| 25 Jul 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 40 · Supreme Court
An employer defending a claim based on vicarious liability does not owe its employees a duty to conduct the litigation so as to protect their economic or…
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12 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 5 Aug 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 287 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Under Law of Property Act 1925, s 84, an unsupported concern about a possible future planning response does not establish injury from discharging a covenant…
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| 15 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 396 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, a contract reduced from an oral agreement into writing must be construed as a written contract. The…
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| 15 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 850 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In proprietary estoppel, the usual starting point for relief is enforcement of the promised benefit, but the remedy remains discretionary. The court must…
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| 5 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2834 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In an application for an interim injunction in pharmaceutical patent litigation, the court must apply the American Cyanamid principles to the evidence in the…
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| 5 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EAT 137 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
The 40-hour cap in Annex F for part-time police Inspectors must be applied on an annualised basis. Part-time Inspectors must be paid for hours actually worked…
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| 2 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2364 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a national tax authority pays refund claims under an administrative claim form and credit advices without a process that establishes entitlement under…
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| 26 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2156 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An employee share-option power permitting extension after termination must be consciously exercised by the grantor, with the period, basis and conditions…
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| 23 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1289 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where an order is set aside on appeal, sums paid under that order must be repaid. The court may award interest on those sums from the date of payment until…
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| 21 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1259 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Vicarious liability does not generally arise for the torts of a true independent contractor. The court must first examine the contractual and working reality…
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| 14 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 563 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
For assessing inventive step, the person skilled in the art must be identified by reference to the established field in which the technical problem was located…
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| 27 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 376 (Admlty) · High Court: Admiralty Court
Salvage services require an objectively real and sensible danger, or a sufficiently likely danger worthy of being addressed, when assistance is rendered. The…
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| 30 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 170 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of Limitation Act 1980 section 35(6)(b) and CPR rule 19.6(3)(b), a new party may be substituted where the original claim cannot properly be…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Penningtons Manches Cooper: Thomas Cooper, Manches LLP, Dawsons LLP, Wedlake Saint.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Penningtons Manches Cooper 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 Penningtons Manches Cooper. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.