Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Simpson Millar LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jun 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1395 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The operational protection duty under article 4 of the ECHR arises where state authorities know, or ought to know, facts giving rise to a credible suspicion…
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31 |
| 23 Oct 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 1020 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether a pay disparity has a disparately adverse impact on women is primarily a question of fact, bounded by logic. There is no rule requiring an employment…
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14 |
| 27 Jan 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 14 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An unreasonable delay in promulgating an employment tribunal’s decision is not, without more, an independent ground of appeal. Nor does delay create…
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12 |
| 31 Jul 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 829 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A trade union must inform the employer of a ballot result as soon as reasonably practicable. This is a free-standing duty and does not await a decision to call…
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8 |
| 16 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 843 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 9 does not confer an absolute right to manifest religion at any chosen time and place. Where a pupil has accepted a school’s regime and has a genuine…
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7 |
| 9 May 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 429 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where the fixed-success-fee scheme for road traffic accident claims applies, a claim concluding at trial attracts the prescribed 100% increase in solicitors’…
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6 |
| 25 Feb 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 120 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An adjudicator’s decision provides an interim resolution and ordinarily must be enforced despite errors of fact, law or procedure. Enforcement may be refused…
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6 |
| 9 Oct 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 1295 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Damages for injury-related accommodation should provide full and fair compensation without excessive recovery. Where the claimant has a long life expectancy…
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5 |
| 12 Dec 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 3404 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Recommendations by the First-tier Tribunal on social-care matters in an EHC Plan are non-binding, but a local authority must ordinarily follow them or give…
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3 |
| 24 Sep 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3055 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The Forfeiture Rule applies to every case of unlawful killing, including manslaughter arising from diminished responsibility. Where the rule applies, relief is…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 879 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In an uncontested assessment of damages for personal injuries caused by prolonged domestic abuse, the court assessed psychiatric injury by reference to the…
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| 29 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1983 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 91 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 establishes an objective statutory test for the lawfulness of school disciplinary penalties. A penalty…
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1 |
| 24 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 703 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Judicial review is ordinarily a remedy of last resort. Where Parliament has provided an appeal to a specialist tribunal with broad powers to reconsider the…
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1 |
| 29 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1956 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A driver is judged by the standard of the reasonably careful driver, armed with common sense and experience, in the actual circumstances of the collision. The…
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| 16 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 843 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 9 does not confer an absolute right to manifest religion at any chosen time and place. Where a pupil has accepted a school’s regime and has a genuine…
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7 |
| 15 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2839 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A Group Litigation Order is discretionary. The existence of numerous claims and some common or related issues is not enough. The court must also assess access…
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1 |
| 26 May 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1261 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 14 is engaged where the operation of a state-created educational body has a more than tenuous connection with the core values of Article 9 or A2P1.…
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| 28 Mar 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 702 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Permission to seek judicial review should be granted where there is an arguable case that a local authority has used homelessness accommodation to avoid its…
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| 2 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EAT 202 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An Employment Tribunal must not reject a claim for a supposed mismatch between the respondent named in the early conciliation certificate and the ET1 where the…
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1 |
| 3 Feb 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 182 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A solicitor’s professional indemnity policy does not ordinarily cover liabilities arising from a commercial funding arrangement merely because the solicitor…
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1 |
| 14 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 56 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Support owed under sections 95 and 96 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 must meet an objective minimum standard derived from the applicable reception…
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1 |
| 15 Nov 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 1698 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Contributory negligence is assessed by asking whether the claimant took the care for their own safety expected of a reasonable, prudent and competent person.…
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2 |
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Simpson Millar LLP: EAD Solicitors LLP, Colemans CTTS, JWK Solicitors.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Simpson Millar LLP 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 Simpson Millar LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.