Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Thrings LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 21 Apr 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 455 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A serious delay in delivering judgment does not automatically invalidate findings of fact. The appellate court must apply the usual plainly-wrong standard with…
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20 |
| 9 Mar 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 197 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An exercise of a fiduciary dispositive power outside the scope of that power is void. An exercise within the power is valid unless set aside for breach of…
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17 |
| 21 Jul 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1056 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A private body’s decision is amenable to judicial review where the nature of the power or function, considered with all relevant circumstances, gives the…
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15 |
| 18 Feb 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 326 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009, a decision-maker must have sufficient environmental information to…
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14 |
| 14 Apr 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 405 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An agreement fails for uncertainty only in the rare case where it is legally or practically impossible to give the parties’ words any sensible content.…
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9 |
| 13 Jul 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 851 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A local planning authority may decide that an environmental impact assessment is unnecessary only where it can make a firm, rational judgment that the proposed…
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5 |
| 9 Aug 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2050 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Proprietary estoppel requires an assurance of a proprietary interest, reasonable reliance and detriment, assessed in the round rather than as watertight…
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5 |
| 14 Mar 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 513 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Adverse possession requires both factual possession and an intention to possess. Factual possession must involve single and exclusive physical control…
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5 |
| 8 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 2856 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Damages for trespass may be assessed by reference to a hypothetical negotiation for permission to use the claimant’s land. The measure is the price that…
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5 |
| 6 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1276 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A judgment obtained by fraud may be set aside where the claimant shows conscious and deliberate dishonesty which was material and causative of the judgment.…
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5 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1737 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a statutory planning appeal, interpreting a planning policy is a question of law, while applying it is a matter of planning judgment reviewable only for…
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| 26 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 368 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 57(4) requires a counter-factual inquiry. The development enforced against must be treated as not having occurred, and the decision-maker must identify…
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| 15 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 906 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Absent a special contractual provision or statutory assignment, a third-party claimant has no proprietary right in liability insurance proceeds paid to the…
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| 22 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 666 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The agricultural exemption under Local Government Finance Act 1988 requires two distinct conditions. A building must be occupied together with agricultural…
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| 16 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 883 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Accrued lawful planning use rights may be lost where a change in the physical or planning status of a site creates a new planning unit, or opens a new chapter…
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| 4 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 828 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining the meaning of allegedly defamatory words, the court must identify a single, constant and unfluctuating meaning, without over-analysis. The…
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| 24 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2729 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Following dissolution, Partnership Act 1890, section 42 applies by default where continuing partners use partnership assets, unless there is an agreement to…
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| 21 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2187 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A mandatory injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is discretionary. The court must exercise the discretion judicially…
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| 8 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3566 (SCCO) · High Court: Senior Courts Costs Office
On a detailed assessment of costs, guideline hourly rates are guidance and a possible starting point, not a default entitlement. The appropriate starting point…
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| 5 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2060 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In insolvency directions proceedings, costs may properly be paid from the insolvent estate where the application is a neutral judicial inquiry required to…
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| 24 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1893 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Professional indemnity insurance proceeds paid to an insured company belong beneficially to the company unless the policy, the underlying contract, an express…
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| 31 May 2024 |
[2024] UKUT 149 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For exemption under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, a building must be occupied together with agricultural land and used…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Thrings LLP: Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons, Lee & Pembertons, Wood, Awdry & Ford.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Thrings 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 Thrings LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.