Law firm

Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Trowers & Hamlins LLP is named as solicitors in at least 154 UK judgments from 2004 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and public and administrative law.

154
judgments
58
in the last five years
2
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
26
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes39
  • Public and administrative law36
  • Real estate33
  • Construction and engineering17
  • Trusts, wills and private client13
  • Company and partnership13
  • Public procurement12
  • Planning and environment9

Courts

  • Supreme Court2
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)26
  • High Court113
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal6
  • Upper Tribunal7

Counsel most often instructed

  • Parishil Patel9
  • Anneliese Day4
  • Daniel Saoul4
  • Camille Slow3
  • James Willan3
  • Joseph Sullivan3
  • Justin Bates3
  • Matthew Weaver3

Judgments by year

  • 202612
  • 202514
  • 202417
  • 202310
  • 20225
  • 20213
  • 20208
  • 20197
  • 201813
  • 20177
  • 20168
  • 20154
  • 20142
  • 201311
  • 20124
  • 20116
  • 20107
  • 20096
  • 20082
  • 20072

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Trowers & Hamlins LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
4 Dec 2020
[2020] EWCA Civ 1645 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under the ICE target cost conditions as amended by the NR 12 amendments, default in compliance with contractual obligations means breach of those obligations.…
47
15 Jul 2020
[2020] UKSC 31 · Supreme Court
A shareholder cannot recover a diminution in share value or distributions which merely results from actionable loss suffered by the company. Such loss is not…
22
30 Jul 2010
[2010] EWHC 2032 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A director who diverts to himself or his company a business opportunity pursued by his company breaches his fiduciary duties where he acts without informed…
21
5 Oct 2010
[2010] EWHC 2443 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The nature of a surety’s obligation depends on the true construction of the instrument, read as a whole in its factual and contractual context. Labels such as…
18
8 Dec 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 1658 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Proportionality under article 1 of the First Protocol is context-sensitive. Where a statutory regulator has lawfully decided that property must be transferred…
16
31 Jul 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 734 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In planning decisions involving development on protected open land, an alternative siting within the application site may be a material consideration. No…
14
2 Aug 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 1004 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a local authority proposes outsourcing as a means of fulfilling its best value duty, consultation under section 3(2) of the Local Government Act 1999…
10
21 Dec 2020
[2020] EWHC 3527 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve a foreign defendant under the necessary or proper party gateway requires a real issue between the claimant and an anchor defendant which it…
9
8 May 2013
[2013] EWHC 1151 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A dispute referred to adjudication may contain several issues or financial strands. Whether it is one dispute is a question of fact, assessed against the…
9
19 Jan 2011
[2011] EWHC 40 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Under regulation 47(7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the limitation date depends on the nature of the alleged infringement. A challenge may accrue…
7

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
28 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2239 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Under section 105(4) of the Procurement Act 2023, a contract award notice which does not provide accurate information is treated as unpublished for set-aside…
20 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2209 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In a public procurement, transparency requires tender criteria to be sufficiently clear for a reasonably well-informed and normally diligent tenderer to…
11 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2085 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For a contractual valuation, the expert’s jurisdiction and mandate come from the parties’ agreement. A preliminary decision made within an unfinished expert…
30 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 2004 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the second stage of an application for permission to continue a derivative claim, the court must examine the claim beyond a prima facie threshold, while…
27 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1927 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Amendment of an application challenging an insolvency office-holder’s remuneration is a discretionary case-management exercise under CPR 3.1(2)(p), applied by…
20 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1827 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual documents forming one arrangement must be construed together, but a special rider may operate as a contractual variation of standard-form lease…
12 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1406 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An adjudicator’s decision will generally be enforced where the adjudicator has addressed the dispute referred, even if the decision is alleged to be legally or…
1 Jun 2026
[2026] EWHC 1295 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an appeal from the UKIPO, the court conducts a review and gives respect to the specialist tribunal’s decision. A claim must be construed as a whole, in the…
4 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 228 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An intervener directly affected by an injunction application may obtain its reasonable costs where it is properly joined and materially assists the court. The…
26 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 124 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Statutory disciplinary procedures must be exercised within their express limits. Where a power is conferred on a named office-holder, substitution requires a…
19 Dec 2025
[2025] EAT 188 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
For the collective-consultation duty in section 188 of Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, the decisive question is whether the…
28 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 3126 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An injunction restraining presentation of a winding-up petition should be granted where the alleged debt is disputed on substantial grounds and the dispute is…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Trowers & Hamlins LLP: Trowers.

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