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Sydney Mitchell LLP

Sydney Mitchell LLP is named as solicitors in at least 14 UK judgments from 2006 to 2026, most often in real estate and insolvency and restructuring.

14
judgments
1
in the last five years
6
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Real estate4
  • Insolvency and restructuring3
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery2
  • Company and partnership2
  • Trusts, wills and private client1
  • Family and children1
  • Public and administrative law1
  • Media, defamation and privacy1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)6
  • High Court8

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20250
  • 20240
  • 20230
  • 20220
  • 20212
  • 20201
  • 20193
  • 20181
  • 20170
  • 20160
  • 20152
  • 20140
  • 20130
  • 20120
  • 20111
  • 20100
  • 20091
  • 20080
  • 20071

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Sydney Mitchell LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
26 Oct 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1655 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court may reverse a finding of fact where the trial judge made a demonstrable mistake about crucial documentary or photographic evidence and the…
11
24 Feb 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 240 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where fresh evidence allegedly shows that a judgment was obtained by fraud, an appellate court should order a retrial only if the fraud is admitted or…
7

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
24 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 708 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The power to vary or revoke an interim order is exercised sparingly, ordinarily only after a material change of circumstances or where the original decision…
5 Mar 2021
[2021] EWHC 504 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In determining the meaning of words spoken in a foreign-language television programme, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning conveyed…
24 Feb 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 240 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where fresh evidence allegedly shows that a judgment was obtained by fraud, an appellate court should order a retrial only if the fraud is admitted or…
7
29 May 2020
[2020] EWHC 1360 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An interim springboard injunction is restorative, not punitive. The applicant must identify the unlawful competitive advantage, the resulting harm, and the…
28 Jun 2019
[2019] EWHC 1663 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where insolvency costs arise from legal proceedings before the court, the court retains its ordinary jurisdiction under CPR Part 44 to determine who should pay…
2
1 Mar 2019
[2019] EWHC 456 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For a bankruptcy petition, personal service is mandatory unless the court prospectively orders substituted service under rule 6.14 of the Insolvency Rules…
1
7 Feb 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 121 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An express grant of a right of way for the benefit of specified transferred land does not extend to separately identified adjoining land merely because a…
2
21 May 2018
[2018] EWHC 1206 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A right of way may be extinguished by permanent abandonment inferred from the parties’ conveyancing arrangements; abandonment need not consist of mere…
5 Nov 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 1122 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An LPA receiver’s equitable duty to take account of a mortgagor’s interests depends on the mortgagor retaining an interest in the equity of redemption.…
1
22 Jul 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 795 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a boundary is marked by a hedge and ditch, two rebuttable presumptions apply unless evidence shows that the ditch pre-dated the ownership boundary or…
23 Mar 2011
[2011] EWHC 880 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A freezing order may support the collection of a tax debt which has been assessed and is presently in existence, even though payment is deferred by statute.…
1
26 Oct 2006
[2006] EWCA Civ 1655 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court may reverse a finding of fact where the trial judge made a demonstrable mistake about crucial documentary or photographic evidence and the…
11

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