Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Slaughter and May acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Mar 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 159 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Identity-based trade mark infringement requires identity both of the sign and of the goods or services. The defendant’s sign must first be identified as a…
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| 17 Nov 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 2743 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A foreign company may be the subject of a creditors’ scheme under section 425 of the Companies Act 1985. The foreign-company winding-up requirements are…
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39 |
| 10 May 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 680 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Serious delay in delivering judgment requires special care when reviewing factual findings. Delay alone does not justify setting judgment aside. Where material…
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38 |
| 9 Mar 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 13 · Supreme Court
A tax statute must be construed purposively. The actual transaction must then be viewed realistically to decide whether it answers the statutory description.…
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38 |
| 14 Apr 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 501 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980, reasonable diligence is assessed objectively by reference to the actual claimant and its circumstances at the…
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33 |
| 23 Apr 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 888 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The standard basis is the normal basis for assessing costs. Indemnity costs require conduct or circumstances which take the case outside the norm. Where…
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23 |
| 12 Dec 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1588 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claimant seeking permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction must have a sustainable cause of action and must identify expressly each cause of…
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20 |
| 11 Jun 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 1319 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An auditor conducting a substantive audit must obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are complete and accurate. The procedures required…
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20 |
| 18 Nov 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 1284 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Civil Procedure Rules r 19.6, a representative action requires a class whose members can be determined to have the same interest at every stage of the…
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15 |
| 25 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 415 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For Limitation Act 1980 s 32(1)(b), a concealed fact must be essential to pleading a viable cause of action. Facts which merely strengthen the claim, provide…
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15 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2454 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The power to appoint post-judgment receivers is exercised where it is just and convenient. Under the Senior Courts Act 1981 and the Civil Procedure Rules 1998…
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| 21 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2394 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under Insolvency Act 1986, leave to proceed after a winding-up should be granted where the proposed claim is genuinely arguable and raises a serious or…
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| 5 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2079 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 confers a discretionary cross-class cramdown jurisdiction. The court must identify the most likely alternative if the plan…
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| 1 Jul 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 18 · Supreme Court
The salaried-members regime treats an LLP member as an employee for tax purposes only when all three statutory conditions are met. Condition B concerns…
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| 1 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1798 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Sanction under Part 26A requires a fact-sensitive, multi-factor assessment. The court may approve late modifications where it has jurisdiction and concludes…
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| 8 Jun 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 211 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
Eligibility under the UK VAT grouping rules is defined by reference to the whole body corporate. A conforming construction that limited membership to a UK…
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| 3 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1614 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to convene meetings for restructuring plans, the court must balance the companies’ prejudice from delay against the benefits of allowing…
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| 24 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 90 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
Section 327 of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 applies to an accounting loss arising in connection with a loan relationship even where the loss includes expenses…
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| 23 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 83 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contractual notification obligations are construed according to the language chosen by the parties. In a sophisticated share sale agreement, a notification…
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| 19 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 73 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In a split trial, the court may make an immediate costs order for a liability stage even though substantial damages remain undecided, particularly where the…
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| 14 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 38 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In complex group litigation, the court may select representative lead claimants where common issues can be tried efficiently, but the selection should reflect…
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| 1 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3134 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Access to a company’s register of members may be refused only where the stated purpose is not proper. The court must identify the requester’s purpose and…
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