Law firm

Sternberg Reed

Sternberg Reed is named as solicitors in at least 40 UK judgments from 2006 to 2026, most often in family and children and public and administrative law.

40
judgments
11
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
15
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Family and children15
  • Public and administrative law15
  • Civil liberties and human rights7
  • Media, defamation and privacy4
  • Crime4
  • Extradition3
  • Real estate3
  • Social welfare and education3

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)13
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)2
  • High Court23

Counsel most often instructed

  • Jon Holbrook6
  • Charles Béar3
  • Esther Maclachlan3
  • William Dean3

Judgments by year

  • 20262
  • 20251
  • 20243
  • 20233
  • 20222
  • 20212
  • 20200
  • 20192
  • 20183
  • 20170
  • 20162
  • 20151
  • 20141
  • 20130
  • 20123
  • 20115
  • 20102
  • 20090
  • 20083
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Sternberg Reed acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
16 Mar 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 234 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A community care assessor must consider material which is so obviously relevant that disregarding it would be perverse. Relevant material may reasonably be…
33
26 Jan 2011
[2011] UKSC 3 · Supreme Court
For homelessness purposes, domestic violence under section 177(1) of the Housing Act 1996 is not confined to physical contact. It includes threatening or…
7
22 May 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 479 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Sections 102 and 103 of the Housing Act 1985 form a complete code for varying secure tenancies. A local authority may vary terms by agreement, under limited…
3
20 Jun 2008
[2008] EWHC 1364 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 6 of the Convention is not engaged merely because a local authority must assess whether an asylum seeker is under 18 for the purposes of accommodation…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
23 Mar 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 346 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Rights to recover money or property under sections 26(2)(a) and 27(2)(a) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 are directed to the contractual…
8 Apr 2025
[2025] EWHC 834 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An agreement made in breach of the general prohibition in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 is voidable rather than void. The innocent party’s…
1
23 Aug 2024
[2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An express declaration of trust is conclusive as to beneficial ownership unless rectified or rescinded, varied by subsequent agreement, or affected by…
27 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 3032 (SCCO) · High Court: Senior Courts Costs Office
In detailed assessment proceedings, the receiving party will ordinarily recover the costs of the assessment under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, rule 47.20. The…
8 Apr 2022
[2022] EWHC 841 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At Aranyosi Stage 3, the court must evaluate all available evidence and decide whether the real risk of Article 3 ill-treatment can be discounted. In…
2
2 May 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 750 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When deciding whether to suspend a possession order for antisocial behaviour, the court must assess reasonableness and proportionality by reference to all…
19 Apr 2012
[2012] EWHC 1006 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For extradition to a category 1 territory, the applicant bears a heavy burden of showing a real risk of future treatment contrary to article 3 of the…
10 May 2011
[2011] EWHC 1170 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A third party may assert an interest in property subject to confiscation proceedings, and the court may determine that claim when considering an enforcement…
1
26 Jan 2011
[2011] UKSC 3 · Supreme Court
For homelessness purposes, domestic violence under section 177(1) of the Housing Act 1996 is not confined to physical contact. It includes threatening or…
7
20 Jun 2008
[2008] EWHC 1364 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 6 of the Convention is not engaged merely because a local authority must assess whether an asylum seeker is under 18 for the purposes of accommodation…
3
18 Apr 2008
[2008] EWHC 1009 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a public procurement challenge, comparative tender documents may be strictly relevant where the defence puts the relative marking of rival bids in issue.…
18 Jul 2007
[2007] EWHC 1927 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In reviewing an NHS funding decision, the court determines legality rather than the clinical or resource-allocation merits. The decision must be rational and…
1

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Sternberg Reed 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 Sternberg Reed. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.