Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Shakespeare Martineau acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 24 Feb 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 121 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether an employer has committed a repudiatory breach for the purpose of constructive dismissal is determined objectively under ordinary contractual…
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93 |
| 6 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 114 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A successful defendant who has bettered a Part 36 offer has no automatic entitlement to indemnity costs. The court must exercise its discretion under the CPR…
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22 |
| 3 Apr 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 383 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A company may be insolvent although it is currently paying its debts as they fall due. The cash-flow and balance-sheet tests under section 123 of the…
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20 |
| 10 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2823 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When a planning application is amended, the substantive question whether the amended development remains substantially the development originally proposed is…
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20 |
| 9 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 101 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court reviewing a refusal to adjourn must determine whether the decision was fair in the circumstances, rather than merely whether it fell within…
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18 |
| 31 Jan 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 25 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant proves negligence and proves that the ensuing loss is of a kind likely to result from that negligence, the court may infer causation on the…
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17 |
| 26 Apr 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 403 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application under Civil Procedure Rules r 39.3, the requirements of promptness, a good reason for non-attendance, and a reasonable prospect of success…
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15 |
| 6 Aug 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 887 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Related works do not constitute a single project for environmental impact assessment merely because they interact or may produce cumulative environmental…
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10 |
| 31 Jan 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 124 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A declaration of rights does not require proof of an actual or imminent infringement. The court has a discretionary jurisdiction to declare present or future…
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10 |
| 14 Dec 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1664 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An acknowledged factual error in a judgment should ordinarily be corrected after both parties have had an opportunity to make submissions. An appellate court…
|
10 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 25 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2448 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A patent claim is construed purposively, in context and as a whole, but ordinary words retain their ordinary meaning where no term of art is established. A…
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| 19 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EAT 90 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
In direct discrimination claims, a tribunal must apply the two-stage burden of proof in Equality Act 2010, section 136, unless it makes positive findings about…
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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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| 19 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 93 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent claims are construed purposively in context, but purpose cannot override the language chosen. A requirement that weld portions extend away from a…
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1 |
| 11 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 4 · Supreme Court
A statutory prohibition on using dairy designations for non-dairy agricultural products extends beyond using a dairy term as the product’s name. A designation…
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| 29 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 144 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Costs between parties and a trustee’s indemnity from trust assets are separate questions, although both may involve the reasonableness of the trustee’s…
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| 23 Jan 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 19 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
An issue estoppel arising from an earlier service-charge determination does not prevent a tribunal from making findings about later service-charge years where…
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| 13 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 25 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal from a specialist disciplinary tribunal is a review, not a rehearing. The reviewing court engages with the merits but gives appropriate respect to…
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| 17 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3011 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The removal or replacement of trustees is governed by the beneficiaries’ welfare and the proper administration of the trust as a whole. The jurisdiction is…
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1 |
| 23 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 190 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
In a determined-boundary dispute, the boundary is established by construing the deed which created it in its factual setting. A plan expressed to be for…
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| 3 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1376 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Witness evidence should set out facts within the witness’s knowledge. Commentary on an opponent’s documents, design features and correspondence is ordinarily…
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| 19 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1099 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trustees are removed only where removal is required for the welfare of the beneficiaries as a whole or is necessary to protect the trust or its proper…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Shakespeare Martineau: SGH Martineau LLP, Harvey Ingram LLP, Martineau Johnson, Sprecher Grier Halberstam, Martineau, Berryman, Wood Glaister.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Shakespeare Martineau 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 Shakespeare Martineau. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.