Law firm

Teacher Stern LLP

Teacher Stern LLP is named as solicitors in at least 121 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and company and partnership.

121
judgments
28
in the last five years
7
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
37
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes27
  • Company and partnership15
  • Real estate14
  • Trusts, wills and private client12
  • Insolvency and restructuring11
  • Public and administrative law10
  • Housing6
  • Arbitration5

Courts

  • Supreme Court3
  • Privy Council4
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)37
  • High Court74
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • Gabriel Buttimore11
  • Max Mallin11
  • Robert-Jan Temmink11
  • Clive Freedman5
  • Tom Morris4
  • David Dorsett3
  • Frederick Philpott3
  • James Mellor3

Judgments by year

  • 20263
  • 20255
  • 20246
  • 20233
  • 202211
  • 20213
  • 20205
  • 20198
  • 20184
  • 20171
  • 20161
  • 20154
  • 20146
  • 20135
  • 20122
  • 20115
  • 20105
  • 20097
  • 20086
  • 20076

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Teacher Stern LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
4 Apr 2007
[2007] EWCA Civ 299 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A regulated consumer credit agreement must contain correctly stated prescribed terms within the agreement itself. The prescribed repayment term permits…
40
10 Jul 2017
[2017] EWCA Civ 979 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A worker reasonably believes that a disclosure is in the public interest where, viewed in all the circumstances, the disclosure serves a wider interest as well…
30
16 Mar 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 286 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The fraud exception applies to litigation privilege as well as legal advice privilege. Communications and documents created to further a criminal or fraudulent…
15
6 May 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 531 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court may reverse a finding of primary fact only when, after re-examining the evidence and respecting the trial judge’s advantage in seeing the…
8
12 Apr 2022
[2022] EWHC 875 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In partnership dissolution proceedings, proprietary estoppel requires a sufficiently clear assurance, reasonable reliance and consequential detriment, assessed…
6
22 Jul 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 751 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A director who obtains information and a business opportunity while acting for the company must disclose the opportunity and obtain the company’s informed…
6
31 Jan 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 52 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For a will to be validly executed under section 9(a) of the Wills Act 1837, a third party who signs for the testator must do so at the testator’s direction. A…
5
25 Apr 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 411 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An account of profits for misuse of confidential information is an equitable and discretionary remedy. A successful claimant has no right to elect it instead…
5
7 Oct 2014
[2014] EWHC 3192 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A freezing injunction requires three cumulative conditions: a good arguable case, a real risk of dissipation, and that it is just and convenient to grant…
4
6 Nov 2019
[2019] EWHC 2964 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A statutory review of a traffic management order is confined to public-law grounds. It does not permit the court to reconsider the merits of the parking…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
23 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 338 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A subscriber’s contractual obligation to pay for shares arises when the company is registered and the subscriber becomes the holder of the shares. A call…
27 Jan 2026
[2026] UKUT 18 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Section 124 of the Building Safety Act 2022 permits the First-tier Tribunal to make remediation contribution orders against multiple respondents on a joint and…
13 Aug 2025
[2025] UKPC 38 · Privy Council
Where legislation expressly authorises exemplary damages, common-law restrictions on exemplary damages do not add conditions to that statutory power. Under the…
30 Jun 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 814 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Settlement agreements are interpreted by ordinary contractual principles in their legal and statutory context. A broad release and agreement not to sue…
19 Feb 2025
[2025] UKSC 5 · Supreme Court
The doctrine of merger applies when a coercive judgment, such as a judgment for debt, damages or the return of property, supersedes the claimant’s right to a…
2
5 Dec 2024
[2024] UKPC 39 · Privy Council
An appellate court will not review concurrent findings of fact by two courts below where the findings depend on the evaluation of competing oral and…
3 Dec 2024
[2024] EWHC 3104 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Damages for trespass are compensatory. The user principle permits compensation measured by a reasonable price or fee for wrongful use of valuable property…
18 Sep 2024
[2024] UKPC 29 · Privy Council
Freedom of expression does not confer an unconditional right to use a government-controlled broadcasting platform. The ancillary right is a right to fair…
28 Jun 2024
[2024] EWHC 1638 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An adviser may owe fiduciary duties personally where, viewed in context, he undertakes responsibility for a client’s property investments and exercises…
19 Jun 2024
[2024] EWHC 1480 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual construction is a unitary and iterative exercise. The court must balance the language of the agreement, its wider context, commercial consequences…
16 Feb 2024
[2024] EWHC 335 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Applications for late disclosure require strict attention to the applicable procedural threshold, reasonable and proportionate case management, and the need…
12 Jun 2023
[2023] EWHC 1415 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Informal dealings and expectations of a discretionary bonus do not, without more, establish a binding profit-sharing contract. The court assesses intention…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Teacher Stern LLP: Teacher Stern Selby, Butcher Burns, TSSlaw.

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