Law firm

Thomson Snell & Passmore

Thomson Snell & Passmore is named as solicitors in at least 39 UK judgments from 2003 to 2023, most often in family and children and public and administrative law.

39
judgments
7
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
8
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Family and children13
  • Public and administrative law5
  • Trusts, wills and private client4
  • Real estate4
  • Insolvency and restructuring3
  • Planning and environment3
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery3
  • Civil liberties and human rights2

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Privy Council1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)8
  • High Court29

Counsel most often instructed

  • Jonathan Swift3
  • Saira Kabir Sheikh3

Judgments by year

  • 20260
  • 20250
  • 20240
  • 20235
  • 20222
  • 20212
  • 20201
  • 20196
  • 20182
  • 20172
  • 20161
  • 20157
  • 20142
  • 20130
  • 20120
  • 20112
  • 20100
  • 20091
  • 20081
  • 20071

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Thomson Snell & Passmore acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
20 Dec 2005
[2005] EWCA Civ 1583 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A person may be ordered to pay judicial review costs as a non-party where that person instigated and controlled the claim for their own purposes and was…
11
12 Jun 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 790 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claim should not be struck out for having no reasonable prospect of success where that conclusion depends on predicting the failure of pending proceedings…
5
18 Nov 2003
[2003] EWCA Civ 1935 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a relationship-based undue-influence claim, the evidential burden shifts to the donee where the donor reposed trust and confidence in the donee, or the…
3
9 May 2019
[2019] EWHC 1165 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On a solvent members’ voluntary winding up, Insolvency Act 1986, s 107 requires surplus assets to be distributed among the members unless the company’s…
3
30 Oct 2019
[2019] UKSC 47 · Supreme Court
When a landlord’s consent under a fully qualified leasehold covenant must not be unreasonably withheld, three principles govern. The landlord’s reason must…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
16 May 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 514 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appointed decision-maker may use an internal officer to assist with the decision-making process, including by carrying out a site visit, reporting on the…
21 Feb 2023
[2023] EWHC 360 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An adjudicator may request security for fees from both parties during an adjudication. Such a request is not, without more, an unlawful lien or evidence of…
14 Feb 2023
[2023] EWHC 308 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A person may be a de facto director where, viewed objectively and in the round, he assumes the status and functions of a director and acts as a decision-maker.…
9 Nov 2022
[2022] EWHC 2770 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A voluntary disposition may be rescinded for mistake where the trustees held a distinct, causative mistake as to the transaction’s substance or effect, and the…
19 May 2022
[2022] EWHC 1203 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A freezing injunction may be granted where the applicant has a good arguable case for a money judgment, the respondent has assets against which it could be…
1
29 Jan 2021
[2021] EWHC 169 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
In a clinical negligence claim involving death from bacterial meningitis, causation was determined on ordinary but-for principles and the balance of…
1
30 Oct 2019
[2019] UKSC 47 · Supreme Court
When a landlord’s consent under a fully qualified leasehold covenant must not be unreasonably withheld, three principles govern. The landlord’s reason must…
3
9 May 2019
[2019] EWHC 2194 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Costs ordinarily follow the event. A departure may be justified where the losing party’s involvement was, in substance, sponsored by an estate administrator to…
1
9 May 2019
[2019] EWHC 1684 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to appeal should be refused where the proposed grounds have no real prospect of success under CPR r 52.6(1). On a members’ voluntary winding up…
9 May 2019
[2019] EWHC 1165 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On a solvent members’ voluntary winding up, Insolvency Act 1986, s 107 requires surplus assets to be distributed among the members unless the company’s…
3
8 Jun 2018
[2018] EWCA Civ 1304 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Regulations 122 and 123 of the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 restrict the use of planning obligations and certain conditions, but do not…
1
17 Apr 2018
[2018] EWCA Civ 765 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a lease requires consent to a planning application, with consent not to be unreasonably withheld, the tenant must show objectively that the refusal was…

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