Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Seddons GSC acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 433 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The meaning of a tweet is assessed impressionistically through the ordinary reasonable reader, taking account of the whole statement and its relevant context.…
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| 15 Jun 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 428 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Foreign law is ordinarily a question of fact, so an appellate court will usually be slow to disturb a trial judge’s evaluation of expert evidence. The court…
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17 |
| 6 Mar 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
On an application to dispense with statutory consultation requirements for major works, the tribunal should normally focus on the relevant prejudice caused to…
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15 |
| 23 Jul 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 1795 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A claim for damages arising from a Member State’s continuing failure to implement a Community law obligation is founded on tort where the obligation operates…
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14 |
| 25 Jun 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1746 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Mandatory Italian financial-services rules applied despite the parties’ choice of English law because all other relevant elements were connected only with…
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9 |
| 27 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1740 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where related contracts contain different jurisdiction clauses, the clauses should receive a careful, commercially minded construction. Mutual exclusivity is…
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8 |
| 16 Jun 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 1379 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Actual authority does not extend to an agent’s transaction entered into for the agent’s own interests or contrary to those of the principal. Nor does a senior…
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8 |
| 11 Feb 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 112 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A fraudulent insurance claim is governed by a special common-law rule. It is distinct from avoidance of the policy ab initio and from ordinary contractual…
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6 |
| 18 Jan 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 44 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986, a transaction at an undervalue requires a subjective, positively intended purpose of putting assets beyond a…
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6 |
| 16 Oct 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2742 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A witness statement may contain only evidence which the witness would be permitted to give orally and which falls within the witness’s competence. A non-expert…
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6 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 16 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1486 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An unsuccessful party will ordinarily pay costs, but indemnity costs require a further exercise of the court’s broad discretion. They are justified where the…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1219 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a defamation claim arising from statements made in complaint correspondence, serious harm is assessed separately for each publication and each publishee.…
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| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 91 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Domestic courts cannot interpret or enforce unincorporated treaties merely because legislation or executive policy was intended to comply with them. A stated…
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| 11 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3262 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Damages in representative proceedings under CPR 19.8 may be awarded without joining individual class members where the class’s loss can be calculated reliably…
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| 2 Dec 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 58 · Privy Council
Where a contract is formed or performed in breach of statute, the court must first decide whether the statute has dealt with contractual enforceability.…
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| 30 Sep 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 48 · Privy Council
For fair value under the Companies Act (2016 revision), the court may consider transaction price, market price, comparable-company valuation and discounted…
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| 23 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 27 · Privy Council
Under a Torrens registration system, an instrument creates and binds successors according to the substance of the rights it records, not merely the label…
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| 17 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 61 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An arbitration agreement concerning compliance with prior religious rulings and related financial issues may be construed broadly and in its contractual…
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| 18 Apr 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1050 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Failure to satisfy a statutory precondition for presenting a bankruptcy petition does not automatically require annulment of a bankruptcy order. Under section…
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1 |
| 18 Jan 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 44 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986, a transaction at an undervalue requires a subjective, positively intended purpose of putting assets beyond a…
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6 |
| 6 Jan 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A freezing order requires a good arguable case on the merits, a real risk of unjustified dissipation, and justice and convenience. The risk must be supported…
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1 |
| 15 Dec 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 3217 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a court proposes to make serious, legally consequential findings against a non-party, procedural fairness ordinarily requires notice of the case…
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3 |
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Seddons GSC: Seddons, GSC Solicitors LLP, B.D. Laddie.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Seddons GSC 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 Seddons GSC. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.