Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Slater and Gordon acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 5 Apr 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 27 · Supreme Court
Indirect discrimination does not require a claimant to explain why a provision, criterion or practice disadvantages a protected group, or to show that the…
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54 |
| 9 Mar 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 10 · Supreme Court
The Fairchild exception applies to mesothelioma caused by a single wrongful exposure to asbestos where environmental exposure is the only alternative source.…
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47 |
| 8 Dec 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1298 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The power to extend the statutory time limit for bringing an employment discrimination claim is a wide judicial discretion, exercised in all the circumstances…
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35 |
| 23 Oct 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 66 · Supreme Court
A school or other institutional carer may owe an exceptional, personal duty to ensure that reasonable care is taken by an independent contractor. The duty may…
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30 |
| 29 Jul 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 827 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When deciding whether to disapply the limitation period for a historic sexual-abuse claim, the court must determine whether it is equitable to require the…
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27 |
| 1 Dec 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1992 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980, the court must make an unfettered and broad assessment of all the circumstances. It must balance the prejudice to…
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26 |
| 14 Sep 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 1117 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A domestic sporting tribunal must comply with fundamental requirements of fairness, but fairness is assessed realistically in the context of the tribunal’s…
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24 |
| 1 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 769 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Direct discrimination requires objectively less favourable treatment on the protected ground. Harassment by effect requires conduct which actually produces a…
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22 |
| 5 Mar 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 304 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For time-bar purposes under Race Relations Act 1976, separate discriminatory incidents form an act extending over a period only where they are linked as part…
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18 |
| 14 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3366 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In police disciplinary proceedings, serious dishonesty or lack of integrity in an operational investigation will almost invariably justify dismissal or a…
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17 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2175 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A pre-incorporation agreement between individuals does not bind a company that did not yet exist. Under section 51(1) of the Companies Act 2006, the company…
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EAT 112 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
A tribunal must identify the information actually conveyed in a whistleblowing disclosure. It may consider closely related passages in the same report and…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1245 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976, services dependency is assessed by identifying the services the deceased would have provided, translating them into a…
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| 31 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 750 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a disputed medical diagnosis, the court must determine the balance of probabilities from the totality of the available evidence. That evidence may include…
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| 27 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EAT 32 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
For justification under section 19 of the Equality Act 2010, the tribunal must balance the employer’s real needs against the discriminatory effect of the PCP…
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| 5 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EAT 179 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
In assessing compensation for unfair dismissal, a tribunal may make a Polkey reduction only on an evidentially grounded prediction that the actual employer…
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| 13 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2597 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a clinical negligence claim arising from the withholding of thrombolysis, the court distinguished between a patient’s subjective symptoms and objective…
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| 27 May 2025 |
[2025] EAT 74 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
In a direct disability-discrimination claim, the comparator must share the claimant’s material attendance and performance circumstances, save for disability.…
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| 11 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3186 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under CPR 31.22(2), the court may restrict collateral use of material referred to in open court where the applicant identifies specific commercial sensitivity…
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| 14 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2904 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a civil damages claim, a regulatory approval or update decision does not necessarily determine whether an individual vehicle contains a prohibited defeat…
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| 3 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3500 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A taxi driver owes passengers a continuing duty to take reasonable care for their safety. Driving away with a passenger in the vehicle, an open door and…
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| 5 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1729 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A Rule 39 indication is binding on the United Kingdom in international law. Deliberate non-compliance in the stated Rwanda-removal scenario would clearly…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Slater and Gordon: Russell Jones & Walker, Pannone LLP, Chadwick Lawrence, Flint Bishop LLP, John Pickering & Partners, Pannone & Partners, Walker Smith Way, Leo Abse& Cohen, Fentons, Pannones, RJW, Goodmans.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Slater and Gordon 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 Slater and Gordon. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.