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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP is named as solicitors in at least 135 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and civil fraud and asset recovery.

135
judgments
42
in the last five years
5
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
28
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes25
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery24
  • Public and administrative law20
  • Cross-border disputes18
  • Crime10
  • Civil liberties and human rights9
  • Trusts, wills and private client9
  • Company and partnership9

Courts

  • Supreme Court4
  • Privy Council1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)20
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)8
  • High Court99
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • David Drake13
  • Andrew Gurr7
  • Richard Blakeley7
  • Hugh Norbury6
  • Philip Marshall6
  • Philip Woolfe6
  • Jonathan Adkin5
  • Ryan Ferro5

Judgments by year

  • 20266
  • 202513
  • 20249
  • 20239
  • 20225
  • 20215
  • 20207
  • 20197
  • 20185
  • 20176
  • 20167
  • 20158
  • 20144
  • 20136
  • 20128
  • 20118
  • 20102
  • 20092
  • 20085
  • 20072

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
26 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 2031 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An applicant for without notice relief must make reasonable enquiries into known potential defences and present material facts fairly. Claimed forgetfulness…
58
20 Feb 2015
[2015] EWHC 404 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When awarding an interim payment on account of costs, the court must assess recoverable costs objectively. The relevant measure is the lowest sum reasonably…
32
29 Jul 2025
[2025] UKSC 30 · Supreme Court
A court deciding whether executive action is compatible with Convention rights must assess proportionality for itself. It may nevertheless give substantial…
27
19 Jul 2017
[2017] EWCA Civ 1014 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A freezing injunction requires grounds for believing that the defendant has assets on which the order will bite. Apparent wealth alone is insufficient…
17
8 Nov 2016
[2016] EWCA Civ 1099 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where security for costs is sought from a claimant resident in a non-Convention state, foreign residence satisfies the jurisdictional condition but does not…
14
25 Jul 2003
[2003] EWHC 1798 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction requires a reasonably arguable claim within the relevant jurisdictional gateway and England must be the…
13
20 Sep 2023
[2023] UKSC 32 · Supreme Court
On an application under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the court first identifies the matters raised, or foreseeably to be raised, in the proceedings.…
13
27 Mar 2019
[2019] EWHC 645 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For jurisdictional gateways, the governing standard remains a good arguable case. It requires a plausible evidential basis, a reliable view where possible and…
12
28 May 2021
[2021] EWHC 1514 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An English court may order disclosure even where compliance might breach foreign criminal law. The governing procedure is English law, and foreign law does not…
9
17 Jan 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 7 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under rule 16.5(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, a defendant must admit or deny an allegation when able to do so. A defendant is unable to admit or deny…
9

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
14 Sep 2026
[2026] EWHC 2333 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A court may grant relief on a legal basis not precisely pleaded where the underlying issue was squarely in issue, each party had a fair opportunity to address…
15 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1380 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An offer of contractual terms will not ordinarily amount to a representation about the offeror’s present ability or willingness to perform. Clear words are…
29 Apr 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 510 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In contractual causation, a voluntary intervention by a third-party fraudster will normally break the chain where it makes the breach merely an opportunity for…
24 Apr 2026
[2026] EWHC 959 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In civil proceedings alleging money laundering, the Anwoir test applies in full. Where the precise predicate offence is not identified, the circumstances in…
13 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 559 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Costs ordinarily follow the event, but the court may make a different order after considering all the circumstances. A party’s failure on individual arguments…
3 Feb 2026
[2026] UKUT 47 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
For Principle 1 of the FCA’s Principles for Business, a firm’s business is identified by considering the employee’s role, the connection between that role and…
1
24 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 3090 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021, a special administration order may be made where either the institution is…
19 Sep 2025
[2025] EWHC 2334 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An express bare trust requires an objectively manifested intention to create a trust. The court must identify the settlor’s intention from words and conduct…
1
29 Jul 2025
[2025] UKSC 30 · Supreme Court
A court deciding whether executive action is compatible with Convention rights must assess proportionality for itself. It may nevertheless give substantial…
27
22 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1802 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A commercial intermediary who represents that customers are paying factory prices, while secretly adding amounts for his benefit, may be liable in deceit.…
18 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1836 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Without-notice applications for permission to serve out of the jurisdiction or to extend time for service require full and frank disclosure and fair…
24 Jun 2025
[2025] UKUT 197 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
A witness summons is justified where there is a real likelihood that the witness will give evidence materially assisting the Tribunal. The evidence need not be…
2

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Peters & Peters Solicitors 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 Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.