Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Pinsent Masons acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Mar 2010 |
[2010] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
Contract formation depends on an objective assessment of the parties’ words and conduct. The court asks whether they intended legal relations and agreed every…
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128 |
| 6 Dec 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 79 · Supreme Court
A local planning authority determining environmental impact assessment development must publish intelligible and adequate main reasons. The reasons must…
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94 |
| 31 Jan 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 24 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Likelihood of confusion under Article 9(1)(b) must be assessed globally through the eyes of the average consumer. The court must consider the sign in the…
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92 |
| 27 Mar 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 15 · Supreme Court
Obviousness under section 3 of the Patents Act 1977 requires a fact-specific assessment of all relevant circumstances. Uninventive work which the skilled…
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79 |
| 27 Jul 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 41 · Supreme Court
When employment or worker status is disputed, written terms do not necessarily represent the parties’ true agreement. The tribunal must determine their actual…
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73 |
| 4 Jul 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 34 · Supreme Court
Article 3 of the Directive 2001/24/EC on the Reorganisation and Winding up of Credit Institutions requires every member state to recognise the entire legal…
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68 |
| 29 Sep 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 2280 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In commercial litigation involving competing monetary claims, the party entitled to the net payment will generally be the overall successful party for costs.…
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55 |
| 15 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1534 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An interviewee who speaks knowing that the interview will be broadcast in the United Kingdom intends or authorises that republication and may be liable for it.…
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44 |
| 2 Jul 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 784 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An exclusive jurisdiction clause falling within article 23 of the revised Lugano Convention is assessed under an autonomous European-law regime. Written…
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38 |
| 10 May 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 680 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Serious delay in delivering judgment requires special care when reviewing factual findings. Delay alone does not justify setting judgment aside. Where material…
|
38 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 24 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2414 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For the purposes of the supplementary protection certificate regime, “active ingredient” in article 1(b) of Regulation (EC) 469/2009 has the same meaning as…
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| 21 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2457 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
At a case management conference, a court may defer deciding a complex patent-equivalence pleading where the argument has no practical effect on the evidence…
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| 7 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2298 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Costs ordinarily follow the event where a claimant succeeds in a fully contested judicial review, but the recoverable proportion may be adjusted for a distinct…
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| 13 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2127 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For a patent claim covering distinct technical fields, obviousness may be tested from any legitimate skilled team working in a field covered by the claim. Each…
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2110 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Permission for judicial review requires an arguable ground with a realistic prospect of success which merits full investigation, subject to discretionary bars.…
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| 4 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1934 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A covenant not to terminate an agreement by action or omission does not ordinarily require a party to renew an option before its contractual expiry. Expiry by…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1994 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In patent litigation, managing confidential technical information requires a balance between the receiving party’s access to relevant material and protection…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2265 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Trade mark infringement under the Trade Marks Act turns on the statutory conditions for identity or similarity, the relevant goods, confusion, reputation…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 964 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an account of profits for patent infringement, factual causation does not establish that all profits were derived from the infringement. The court must…
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| 17 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1820 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A board of a Lebanese joint-stock company may manage regular operations, but cannot, without the appropriate general-assembly authority, dispose of…
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| 10 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2361 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An application for further information should be determined by the order that is just and best promotes the overriding objective. The court may grant it in…
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| 1 Jul 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 19 · Supreme Court
Issue estoppel arises only from an issue that was necessary and fundamental to the earlier decision. It attaches to the immediate legal foundation of that…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Pinsent Masons: McGrigors LLP, Reid Minty LLP, Pinsents, Pinsent Curtis Biddle, KLegal, Pinsent.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Pinsent Masons 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 Pinsent Masons. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.