Law firm

Waterfront Solicitors LLP

Waterfront Solicitors LLP is named as solicitors in at least 16 UK judgments from 2008 to 2026, most often in intellectual property and commercial disputes.

16
judgments
4
in the last five years
1
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Intellectual property13
  • Commercial disputes3
  • Media, defamation and privacy1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)1
  • High Court15

Counsel most often instructed

  • Chris Aikens3

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20251
  • 20241
  • 20230
  • 20221
  • 20211
  • 20201
  • 20191
  • 20182
  • 20170
  • 20161
  • 20151
  • 20142
  • 20131
  • 20120
  • 20110
  • 20101
  • 20090
  • 20081

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Waterfront Solicitors LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
27 Mar 2015
[2015] EWHC 841 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Joint tortfeasance requires more than knowingly facilitating another’s infringement. The alleged joint tortfeasor must actively co-operate in bringing about…
15
3 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2084 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
In an inquiry into damages for groundless patent threats, compensation is assessed to place the claimant in the position it would have occupied absent the…
5
8 Nov 2018
[2018] EWHC 3006 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For costs purposes, the party receiving a payment is often, but not invariably, the successful party. The court must determine which party won as a matter of…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
17 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2163 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Confidential business information is protected where it is inaccessible and identified with sufficient precision. An employee who copies a substantial body of…
5 Dec 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1584 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A weakly distinctive trade mark has a narrower scope of protection, but remains capable of being infringed by a sufficiently similar sign. Similarity and…
1
30 Sep 2024
[2024] EWHC 2449 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Trade mark infringement and passing off depend on the evidence in the particular case. For online use to count as genuine use of a UK trade mark, mere…
19 Mar 2021
[2021] EWHC 647 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to amend a statement of case should be refused where the proposed claim has no real prospect of success or is inadequately particularised. In breach…
29 Jul 2020
[2020] EWHC 2069 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Bad faith in applying for a trade mark requires conduct falling short of the standards of acceptable commercial behaviour, assessed on the applicant’s…
17 Sep 2019
[2019] EWHC 2419 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
For an unregistered Community design to receive protection, the first disclosure event must take place within the territory of the Community. It is…
8 Nov 2018
[2018] EWHC 3006 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For costs purposes, the party receiving a payment is often, but not invariably, the successful party. The court must determine which party won as a matter of…
4
25 Oct 2018
[2018] EWHC 2765 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A binding commercial contract depends on objectively communicated intention and agreement on the terms which the parties regarded, or the law regarded, as…
2
14 Jun 2016
[2016] EWHC 1361 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright infringement requires more than similarity between software products, particularly where the similar features are unoriginal, functional, derived…
27 Mar 2015
[2015] EWHC 841 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Joint tortfeasance requires more than knowingly facilitating another’s infringement. The alleged joint tortfeasor must actively co-operate in bringing about…
15
3 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2084 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
In an inquiry into damages for groundless patent threats, compensation is assessed to place the claimant in the position it would have occupied absent the…
5
2 Jun 2014
[2014] EWHC 2077 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
On a summary-judgment application, the court must decide whether the defence has a realistic prospect of success, without conducting a mini-trial. The court…
1

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