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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Signature Litigation LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
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| 19 Mar 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 10 · Supreme Court
A fiduciary must account for an unauthorised profit made from, or sufficiently connected with, the fiduciary relationship. The obligation can extend to profits…
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24 |
| 26 Nov 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3433 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Expert evidence is admissible only where it draws on recognised expertise governed by recognised standards and is reasonably required to resolve the…
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16 |
| 20 Sep 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 32 · Supreme Court
On an application under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the court first identifies the matters raised, or foreseeably to be raised, in the proceedings.…
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13 |
| 1 Nov 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2918 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A fiduciary’s post-resignation exploitation of a business opportunity is actionable where the liability arises from a pre-resignation breach. The opportunity…
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11 |
| 8 Dec 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 3161 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Legal advice privilege protects confidential communications between a client and a lawyer made for the purpose of giving or obtaining legal advice. In a…
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11 |
| 17 Apr 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 367 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A third party’s statutory ability to rely on a contractual exclusion of liability may amount to enforcement under section 1(6) of the Contracts (Rights of…
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6 |
| 24 Jan 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 95 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party seeking release from an undertaking given in lieu of security for costs must first establish a material change of circumstance. The application is then…
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6 |
| 17 Jun 2024 |
The Persons Identified in Schedule 1 to the Re-Amended Particulars of Claim v Standard Chartered PLC
[2024] EWCA Civ 674 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An allegation of fraud or dishonesty must be unequivocal and adequately particularised. A pleading need not disclose a solid evidential foundation or set out…
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6 |
| 11 Jun 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1424 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
When disclosure ordered by an English court may expose a party to foreign criminal liability, the English court retains jurisdiction to order disclosure. The…
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5 |
| 22 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2965 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An application for pre-action disclosure is a free-standing proceeding. It may be served out of the jurisdiction where the statutory and procedural…
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4 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2107 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A stay pending an intended appeal is discretionary and fact-sensitive. The court must weigh the risk of injustice in granting or refusing it, the effect of…
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| 16 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1468 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Valid service of a bankruptcy petition is the foundation of the court’s adjudicatory jurisdiction. The statutory jurisdictional requirements for making a…
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| 3 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1293 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to set aside a bankruptcy statutory demand, a debt is disputed on substantial grounds where the debtor’s defence has a real, rather than…
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| 5 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3198 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where a party relies on the adequacy of after-the-event insurance to resist an application concerning security for costs, the opposing party must reasonably…
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| 21 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3116 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Applications for disclosure of litigation-funding information in advance of possible security for costs applications should be assessed by asking whether there…
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| 4 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2136 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In English proceedings, foreign confidentiality rules do not override the court’s jurisdiction to order disclosure under English procedural law. The court must…
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| 10 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1995 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court may authorise alternative service where there is a good reason to do so, including where statutory service within the jurisdiction is technically…
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1 |
| 16 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1481 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
English jurisdictional restrictions concerning the administration of estates do not prevent proceedings against heirs personally where the law of the…
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| 19 Mar 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 10 · Supreme Court
A fiduciary must account for an unauthorised profit made from, or sufficiently connected with, the fiduciary relationship. The obligation can extend to profits…
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| 24 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 395 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Costs arising from a third-party or Part 20 claim remain a matter for the court’s discretion under Senior Courts Act 1981, section 51(1). The usual starting…
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| 18 Feb 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 9 · Privy Council
Under a construction contract allowing termination for convenience, a contractor may generally incur costs and liabilities on the assumption that the contract…
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| 10 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3188 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to appeal requires a proposed ground with a real prospect of success. A trial judge’s evaluative conclusions on disclosure sanctions, causation…
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