Law firm

Sutovic & Hartigan Solicitors

Sutovic & Hartigan Solicitors is named as solicitors in at least 75 UK judgments from 2003 to 2021, most often in immigration and asylum and public and administrative law.

75
judgments
0
in the last five years
3
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
36
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Immigration and asylum72
  • Public and administrative law47
  • Civil liberties and human rights21
  • Family and children3

Courts

  • Supreme Court3
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)36
  • High Court32
  • Upper Tribunal4

Counsel most often instructed

  • Gordon Lee9
  • David Jones7
  • P Nathan5
  • D Jones4
  • G Lee4
  • Stephen Knafler4
  • Alex Goodman3
  • Philip Nathan3

Judgments by year

  • 20260
  • 20250
  • 20240
  • 20230
  • 20220
  • 20213
  • 20201
  • 20192
  • 20182
  • 20175
  • 20164
  • 201510
  • 20143
  • 20135
  • 20127
  • 20114
  • 20103
  • 20094
  • 20088
  • 20074

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Sutovic & Hartigan Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
28 Jan 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 45 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The immigration-detention policy for a person with serious mental illness requires a purposive and pragmatic, fact-sensitive assessment. A diagnosis alone…
51
21 Jun 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 842 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A final tribunal determination dismissing an appeal against a decision to make a deportation order provides a lawful basis for making that order and for…
17
11 Jul 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 848 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An Article 8 removal decision requires an overall, fact-sensitive proportionality assessment. Administrative delay in deciding an immigration or asylum…
15
17 May 2006
[2006] EWHC 1095 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Coroners Act 1988, an inquest ordinarily establishes who the deceased was and by what means, when and where death occurred. The ordinary meaning of…
13
29 Jul 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 896 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An EEA national with a permanent right of residence may be removed only on serious grounds of public policy or public security. A tribunal’s failure expressly…
7
30 Nov 2012
[2012] EWHC 3448 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A public law court may determine an otherwise academic issue where it raises a recurring, discrete point of statutory construction, is not fact-sensitive, and…
7
26 Mar 2013
[2013] EWHC 682 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A public authority that has adopted a policy protecting persons with serious mental ill-health must take reasonable steps to inform itself where there is a…
4
24 Apr 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 499 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A discretion to license exhumation under section 25(ii) of the Burial Act 1857 is not subject to an implied presumption of permanence or a burden requiring…
4
15 Jul 2008
[2008] EWHC 1952 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under Rule 353 of HC 395, fresh submissions amount to a fresh claim where they are significantly different from material previously considered and create a…
3
28 Apr 2015
[2015] EWHC 1146 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Refusal to renew a British passport may be unlawful where the original passport was issued after investigation and the Secretary of State cannot provide…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
29 Apr 2021
[2021] EWHC 986 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A fresh claim must be assessed in two stages: whether the further material is significantly different, and whether, with the earlier material, it creates a…
1
15 Sep 2017
[2017] EWHC 2417 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In reviewing a refusal to treat further representations as a fresh claim, the court applies the Wednesbury standard. The decision-maker must ask whether the…
23 Mar 2017
[2017] UKUT 119 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
A decision on a fresh claim must apply country guidance through a fact-sensitive assessment of the applicant’s current individual circumstances. In assessing…
15 Mar 2017
[2017] EWHC 486 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A further submission constitutes a fresh claim under paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules where it contains material not previously considered and, taken…
9 Jun 2016
[2016] EWHC 1352 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A human-rights claim concerning removal under the Dublin system is clearly unfounded only where, on the material before the Secretary of State, there are no…
13 Apr 2016
[2016] EWHC 758 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For a clearly unfounded certification, the court must apply an objective test. If there is at least one legitimate view of the facts or law on which the claim…
7 Sep 2015
[2015] UKUT 518 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
A legitimate expectation based on a public authority’s representation requires a clear and unambiguous promise or statement of practice. A letter which, read…
3 Jul 2015
[2015] EWHC 2501 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For a certification under section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, a claim is not clearly unfounded if there is at least one legitimate…
28 Apr 2015
[2015] EWHC 1146 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Refusal to renew a British passport may be unlawful where the original passport was issued after investigation and the Secretary of State cannot provide…
3
20 Apr 2015
[2015] UKUT 272 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Where judicial review proceedings are resolved by consent, the parties should take proactive steps to agree the order before the hearing. A claimant may…
28 Jan 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 45 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The immigration-detention policy for a person with serious mental illness requires a purposive and pragmatic, fact-sensitive assessment. A diagnosis alone…
51
26 Mar 2013
[2013] EWHC 682 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A public authority that has adopted a policy protecting persons with serious mental ill-health must take reasonable steps to inform itself where there is a…
4

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