Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases RPC acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Sep 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1098 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where an insurance warranty is said to discharge the whole policy upon breach, an insurer seeking that draconian consequence must use clear language. The more…
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175 |
| 3 Apr 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 420 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Courts have an inherent common law jurisdiction to determine the requirements of open justice. Where documents have been placed before a judge and referred to…
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69 |
| 26 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An oral promise creates contractual liability only where, viewed objectively in its context, it expresses a serious willingness to be bound and satisfies the…
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63 |
| 1 Dec 2010 |
[2010] UKSC 53 · Supreme Court
The defence of honest comment requires the publication to identify, expressly or by implication, at least the general facts on which the comment is based. It…
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50 |
| 18 Mar 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 408 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The civil standard of proof for dishonesty is the balance of probabilities. The seriousness of an allegation or its consequences does not increase that…
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48 |
| 3 Apr 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 295 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A confidential relationship does not make every item of information obtained during it private. A reasonable expectation of privacy must be assessed separately…
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45 |
| 11 Mar 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 427 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should not interfere with a case-management decision where the judge applied the correct principles, considered relevant matters and…
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43 |
| 16 Feb 2022 |
[2022] UKSC 5 · Supreme Court
In misuse of private information, information that a person is under criminal investigation by a state body before charge carries a legitimate starting point…
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41 |
| 11 Apr 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 32 · Supreme Court
Damages do not include loss which has been avoided. A benefit is collateral only where its character is independent of the circumstances giving rise to the…
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40 |
| 28 Jul 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1123 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an appeal concerning security for costs, the court may not set security at a sum which it knows an individual claimant cannot afford, since that would…
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34 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 11 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2354 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A D&O policy may make avoidance for fraudulent misrepresentation or non-disclosure conditional on a final decision of a court, tribunal or regulator, or a…
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| 14 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2178 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Relevant fraud and dishonesty allegations should remain in a pleading where they disclose reasonable grounds and relate to the pleaded claim. Their potential…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 1023 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An out-of-court appointment of administrators by a security holder may be ineffective if the appointor's sole subjective purpose is improper. The…
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| 29 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 991 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 3(4) of the Defamation Act 2013, the question whether an opinion could be held by an honest person is an objective one for the court. It is…
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| 16 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1775 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Summary disposal is inappropriate where an arguable legal issue may depend on facts at trial, may not arise, or would benefit from a decision on established…
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| 15 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1788 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On a partly successful application to amend pleadings, a party may still be the successful party where it obtains much, but not all, of the relief sought.…
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| 13 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1749 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to re-amend a pleading, the court should permit an amendment where it has a real, rather than fanciful, prospect of success and the balance…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1708 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A court may revisit an earlier order where there is a proper basis to exercise its power or discretion. A contention that a High Court judge made an error of…
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| 19 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1498 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Abuse of process in phased litigation requires a broad, merits-based assessment of whether raising the point later misuses the court’s process. The fact that a…
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| 11 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1418 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
The principle of open justice may be displaced only in exceptional circumstances, where the derogation is strictly necessary, supported by clear and cogent…
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| 11 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1341 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Contributory negligence is assessed objectively. The claimant must take the precautions which an ordinarily prudent person would observe and must reasonably…
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| 5 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1346 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Once Extended Disclosure has been ordered, a party must produce disclosed documents in full unless a recognised withholding or redaction ground applies. A…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, RPC: Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, Reynolds Porter.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which RPC 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 RPC. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.