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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Stevens & Bolton LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Mar 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 474 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A defendant who follows the procedure for disputing jurisdiction does not submit to the court unless subsequent conduct is wholly unequivocal and explicable…
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15 |
| 31 Jul 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1059 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual requirement that a notice may be served by specified methods is ordinarily permissive unless clear language makes those methods exclusive.…
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10 |
| 11 Oct 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2450 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Part 8 is appropriate only where the question is unlikely to involve a substantial dispute of fact and is framed with sufficient precision to permit a precise…
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8 |
| 17 Nov 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3762 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Copyright infringement may occur where a website is targeted at the UK, even though it is also targeted at another country. Targeting is a multi-factorial…
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8 |
| 14 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3281 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For service out of the jurisdiction, a claimant must show a serious issue to be tried, a good arguable case within a jurisdictional gateway, and that England…
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5 |
| 29 Apr 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 1119 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contractual forecasts which are expressly non-binding purchase commitments may nevertheless be required to reflect the supplier’s genuine and honest estimate…
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5 |
| 10 Mar 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 406 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In an unfair-prejudice petition, excessive remuneration paid to a controlling director may justify relief where it is outside the range supported by objective…
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4 |
| 28 Nov 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 2902 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In probate proceedings, the usual rule that the successful party receives its costs may be displaced where the litigation was caused by the deceased or where…
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4 |
| 31 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 159 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In probate proceedings, testamentary freedom does not remove the requirement to prove that the testator knew and approved the will’s contents. Due execution…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 23 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 619 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For interim proprietary and freezing relief, the merits threshold is a good arguable case: the claim must be more than merely arguable and carry some degree of…
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| 8 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1095 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an application for summary judgment, the court must decide whether the relevant claim or defence has a realistic, rather than fanciful, prospect of success.…
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| 12 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 561 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Genuine use of a trade mark requires real commercial exploitation in the relevant territory, assessed by reference to all relevant facts and the essential…
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| 27 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3048 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A successful party will ordinarily recover costs under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, r 44.2(2)(a), unless there is a reason to depart from that rule. For a…
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1 |
| 21 Jun 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1554 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Whether an agent holds sale proceeds on trust depends on the parties’ objectively ascertained intention from the agreement and relevant surrounding…
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| 31 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 159 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In probate proceedings, testamentary freedom does not remove the requirement to prove that the testator knew and approved the will’s contents. Due execution…
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3 |
| 29 Apr 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 1119 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contractual forecasts which are expressly non-binding purchase commitments may nevertheless be required to reflect the supplier’s genuine and honest estimate…
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5 |
| 9 Feb 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 236 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to amend pleadings is discretionary and must be determined by applying the overriding objective. A very late amendment carries a heavy burden…
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| 25 Nov 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3381 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In a Category 2 application under Public Trustee v Cooper, the court’s approval of a momentous trustee decision is discretionary. The court must be satisfied…
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2 |
| 8 Jan 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 16 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual duty of honesty may ordinarily be implied, but a broader duty of good faith requires a sufficient relational and commercial foundation or…
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| 19 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 3466 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A freezing injunction requires solid evidence of a real risk that the defendant will dissipate assets or deal with them so as to make enforcement more…
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1 |
| 14 Mar 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 520 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a jurisdictional challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the court must determine contractual identity and the existence of an arbitration…
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