Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Stephensons Solicitors LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 594 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In public-law proceedings, an interim injunction is a matter of broad discretion. The court must assess all circumstances and should not impose a rigid gateway…
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17 |
| 16 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 1283 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When resolving conflicting oral and documentary evidence, a court should test witness reliability against independently proved facts, contemporaneous…
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10 |
| 8 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 758 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In professional disciplinary proceedings, sexual misconduct is inherently serious and may justify erasure even for a first-time offender with a good clinical…
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5 |
| 14 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 3093 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Judicial review proceedings directed at one decision should generally be withdrawn or dismissed when that decision is withdrawn and replaced by materially…
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5 |
| 10 Mar 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 562 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When a doctor deliberately breaches specific restrictions imposed on registration, the breach must be assessed as a regulatory breach in its own right. The…
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4 |
| 20 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2851 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of Senior Courts Act 1981, s 18, “criminal cause or matter” has a broad meaning, but each case requires careful appraisal of the nature and…
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4 |
| 7 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 392 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A boundary agreement whose purpose is to identify an unclear boundary, rather than to transfer land, has proprietary effect. It defines the physical extent of…
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3 |
| 16 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 1226 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate tribunal must not substitute its own view for an employment tribunal’s decision on a perversity appeal. Intervention requires an overwhelming case…
|
3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 392 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A boundary agreement whose purpose is to identify an unclear boundary, rather than to transfer land, has proprietary effect. It defines the physical extent of…
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3 |
| 18 Nov 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2936 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal against a medical disciplinary sanction, the court conducts a rehearing and exercises its own judgment on whether the sanction was excessive…
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1 |
| 10 Mar 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 562 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When a doctor deliberately breaches specific restrictions imposed on registration, the breach must be assessed as a regulatory breach in its own right. The…
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4 |
| 7 May 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 594 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In public-law proceedings, an interim injunction is a matter of broad discretion. The court must assess all circumstances and should not impose a rigid gateway…
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17 |
| 26 Nov 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 2074 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A restraint order extending to company assets does not appoint the person subject to it as a receiver or confer standing to act for the companies. A…
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| 16 Apr 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 971 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal from a professional regulatory sanction is a rehearing governed by the ordinary appellate test. The High Court may intervene where the decision was…
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| 20 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2851 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of Senior Courts Act 1981, s 18, “criminal cause or matter” has a broad meaning, but each case requires careful appraisal of the nature and…
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4 |
| 21 Mar 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 496 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A disposition of a company’s property made after the commencement of a court winding-up is void under Insolvency Act 1986, section 127, unless the court orders…
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| 23 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 343 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a clinical negligence claim involving competing medical explanations, the claimant retains the burden of proving breach and causation on the balance of…
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1 |
| 8 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 758 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In professional disciplinary proceedings, sexual misconduct is inherently serious and may justify erasure even for a first-time offender with a good clinical…
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5 |
| 11 Aug 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1254 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Express rights of access in a property transfer may carry necessary ancillary rights. A right to enter to carry out maintenance, repair or decoration includes…
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| 21 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 1879 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A striking-off sanction may be disproportionate where a practitioner has been repeatedly required to complete a return-to-practice course as a condition…
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1 |
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Stephensons Solicitors LLP: Dobsons Solicitors.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Stephensons Solicitors 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 Stephensons Solicitors LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.