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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Stephenson Harwood LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 17 Jan 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 10 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The good arguable case test for establishing jurisdiction is a single, flexible inquiry. The claimant must ordinarily show that it has the better argument on…
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| 18 Feb 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 135 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claimant able to finance commencement and service cannot ordinarily justify extending the time for service by awaiting funding and costs protection for the…
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55 |
| 14 Oct 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1346 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning authority will normally assess a planning application on its own merits. Where the proposal accords with policy and causes no planning harm, the…
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53 |
| 27 May 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 1209 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Statements of case must clearly and concisely identify the facts relied upon. Unreasonably vague or incoherent pleadings may be struck out where doing so is…
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39 |
| 7 Nov 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 55 · Supreme Court
A pension scheme is a formal, specialist and long-term instrument which confers important rights on non-parties. Its interpretation should therefore give…
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31 |
| 6 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 114 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A successful defendant who has bettered a Part 36 offer has no automatic entitlement to indemnity costs. The court must exercise its discretion under the CPR…
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22 |
| 13 Jun 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 710 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An English court will ordinarily enforce an exclusive jurisdiction clause governed by English law unless the party seeking to litigate elsewhere establishes…
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20 |
| 14 Feb 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 244 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent claim lacks inventive step where the claimed difference from the prior art is one of several technically obvious alternatives. An absence of motive is…
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18 |
| 7 Jul 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 1566 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A jurisdiction agreement under article 23(1) of the Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 gives the chosen court jurisdiction over contractual claims and…
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15 |
| 1 Aug 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2062 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A person asserting a statutory direct right against an insurer may be restrained from suing outside an agreed arbitral forum where, in substance, the right…
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15 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2280 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Pre-action disclosure is an exceptional case-management remedy. Under rule 31.16 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, the applicant must show that the parties…
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| 26 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2228 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Negotiation damages for intellectual-property infringement are compensatory. They compensate the owner for the economic value of the right to control use…
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| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 305 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
For the defeased-leasing rules in Schedule 22, the tribunal must assess the actual arrangements as a whole, including their structural features, and compare…
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| 3 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1952 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Long-term pension scheme rules are construed primarily from their text, while giving practical and purposive effect and allowing limited weight to historical…
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| 17 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1813 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Directing a preliminary issue is a broad case-management discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, but it should be exercised cautiously. The issue…
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| 14 Jul 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 21 · Supreme Court
Section 172(1) of the Companies Act 2006 requires a director to act, and not merely to think, in good faith. A court must respect a genuine business judgment…
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4 |
| 1 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 830 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A borrower does not stop interest on a secured loan merely by offering to repay or refinance. A valid tender requires the whole sum properly due to be…
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| 26 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1602 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A proprietary injunction may be granted where there is a serious issue to be tried, the balance of convenience favours relief, and it is just and convenient to…
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| 26 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1240 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Commercial contracts must be construed by identifying the natural meaning of their language in the documentary, factual and commercial context. A buyer’s…
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| 15 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1162 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An asymmetric exclusive jurisdiction clause may require one party to sue exclusively in the designated court while allowing the other party to sue in any other…
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| 2 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 456 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Recognition and enforcement of a New York Convention award may be refused under Arbitration Act 1996, s. 103(3), only on a narrowly construed public-policy…
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| 2 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 449 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Whether a contractual time stipulation is a condition is a question of construction, assessed in the contract’s factual and commercial setting. A commercial or…
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