Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Taylor Hampton acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Jul 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 2242 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 requires a claimant to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that publication has caused serious reputational harm or…
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38 |
| 12 Sep 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1334 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 raises the common-law threshold for defamation from substantial to serious reputational harm. It does not otherwise…
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36 |
| 17 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 1291 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Damages for misuse of private information may compensate both the claimant’s distress and the loss of control over private information. They are compensatory…
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21 |
| 27 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Limitation Act 1980, time is postponed for deliberate concealment only where the concealed facts are essential to plead the causes of action actually…
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7 |
| 12 Jun 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 1505 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
On an application to amend a defamation claim, the court must refuse an amendment where the pleaded words are incapable of bearing the alleged defamatory…
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6 |
| 27 May 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 1195 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A person is not liable for publishing defamatory matter merely because he knew of a proposed publication and could have prevented it. Liability requires…
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6 |
| 7 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 119 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A conventional retainer may be superseded by a conditional fee agreement where the parties objectively intend the latter to govern all subsequent work. Work…
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4 |
| 1 Feb 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 48 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 72 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 removes privilege against self-incrimination in proceedings concerning rights in confidential commercial or personal…
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3 |
| 1 Apr 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 915 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 creates a threshold condition: publication must have caused, or be likely to cause, serious harm to the claimant’s…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2558 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 requires proof of serious reputational harm as a real-world effect of publication. The inquiry is objective and…
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1 |
| 8 Jun 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1394 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When a publication claim is struck out as statute-barred, the publication may still remain relevant to an underlying unlawful information-gathering claim. It…
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| 27 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Limitation Act 1980, time is postponed for deliberate concealment only where the concealed facts are essential to plead the causes of action actually…
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7 |
| 18 Dec 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3471 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A settlement agreement is interpreted as a unitary exercise. The court considers the natural and ordinary meaning of the language, the agreement as a whole…
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| 7 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 119 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A conventional retainer may be superseded by a conditional fee agreement where the parties objectively intend the latter to govern all subsequent work. Work…
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4 |
| 12 Sep 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1334 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 raises the common-law threshold for defamation from substantial to serious reputational harm. It does not otherwise…
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36 |
| 12 Sep 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1327 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Once legal professional privilege is established, the law has already struck the balance between confidentiality and truth. Neither the public interest in…
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1 |
| 14 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1010 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an inter partes costs assessment, the indemnity principle limits recovery to the receiving party’s actual legal liability to their own solicitor. The paying…
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| 8 Jul 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 1600 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A solicitor’s conditional fee agreement is construed objectively, by reference to the agreement read as a whole and its factual and contractual context. A risk…
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| 19 Feb 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 294 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A person who receives private information for one purpose must not use it for another without authority. Sending confidential material to a newspaper to test…
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2 |
| 18 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3677 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Where legally privileged documents have been obtained and disclosed without authority, the court’s equitable confidentiality jurisdiction ordinarily requires…
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| 17 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 1291 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Damages for misuse of private information may compensate both the claimant’s distress and the loss of control over private information. They are compensatory…
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21 |
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