Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Shoosmiths LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 26 Jul 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1039 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The Court of Appeal has a continuing responsibility to maintain general-damages guidelines. It may revise them to reflect relevant social and legal change, not…
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| 17 Jul 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 1929 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trade mark infringement through likelihood of confusion requires a global assessment through the eyes of the average consumer. The allegedly infringing sign…
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22 |
| 4 Jul 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 2178 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Damages for breach of warranties in a share sale agreement are ordinarily assessed by comparing the shares’ value as warranted with their true value at the…
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17 |
| 28 Jul 2016 |
[2016] EWCA Civ 795 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning committee’s decision is unlawful where an officer’s report significantly misleads members on a material matter. The seriousness of misleading advice…
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17 |
| 27 Jul 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 47 · Supreme Court
An agent’s authority remains revocable even where the parties agreed that it would be irrevocable. It becomes irrevocable only where they also intended the…
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11 |
| 19 Sep 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 2441 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company voluntary arrangement may compromise or vary existing contractual obligations, including future rent under subsisting leases. Future rent is a…
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10 |
| 29 Jul 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 1045 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a redundancy dismissal is unfair because of defective selection or consultation, compensation depends on the loss attributable to the employer’s action.…
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10 |
| 10 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1708 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Permission to appeal on a question of law from an arbitral award concerning a private, one-off contractual provision may be granted under section 69(3)(c)(i)…
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9 |
| 22 Oct 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 35 · Supreme Court
Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 applies at a later stage of a multi-stage planning process where approval or…
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8 |
| 20 Mar 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 477 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the mandatory lis pendens rule in article 29 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, the phrase “same cause of action” has an autonomous European meaning. The…
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8 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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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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| 15 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1799 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where a pleading defect is accepted but may be corrected, the court may strike out the defective pleading while preserving an opportunity to file a replacement…
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| 7 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 865 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Findings on foreign law attract appellate restraint where an unfamiliar legal system and disputed foreign-language texts require reliance on competing expert…
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| 21 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1228 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A withdrawal of withdrawable share capital by a registered society may be a transaction for the purposes of Insolvency Act 1986, but it is not necessarily a…
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| 13 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 560 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In medical negligence claims involving multiple possible causes of an indivisible injury, the claimant must ordinarily prove on the balance of probabilities…
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| 24 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2742 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Whether circumstances are “exceptional” for altering a Green Belt boundary is principally a matter of planning judgment. The expression is deliberately broad…
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| 22 Oct 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 35 · Supreme Court
Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 applies at a later stage of a multi-stage planning process where approval or…
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| 19 Aug 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 274 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Compensation for compulsory acquisition must reflect the owner’s loss, assessed on the principle of equivalence. Where a business is extinguished, compensation…
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1 |
| 15 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2129 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In exercising the cross-class cram-down jurisdiction under Companies Act 2006 Part 26A, satisfaction of the “no worse off” condition is necessary but not…
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1 |
| 25 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1936 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
For inventive step, the skilled person is ordinarily identified using the practical-interest formulation in Catnic. Where the claimed invention solves a…
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| 4 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EAT 94 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An unfettered contractual right to substitute another person is incompatible with limb (b) worker status only if it is a genuine part of the parties’…
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| 28 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1015 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At a convening hearing for a restructuring plan, the court considers jurisdiction and whether any issue makes convening meetings pointless. English-law…
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