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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Wedlake Bell acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 21 Nov 2012 |
[2012] UKSC 56 · Supreme Court
Vicarious liability is not confined to a contract of employment. A relationship may suffice where its essential incidents make it akin to employment. Relevant…
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| 1 Dec 2020 |
[2020] EWCA Civ 1605 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 45C of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 authorises population-wide restrictions responding to an epidemic. Its broad enabling power is…
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40 |
| 9 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1286 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For a creditor’s bankruptcy petition, a debt for a liquidated sum must be a liability pre-ascertained by the agreement, including through contractual machinery…
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21 |
| 17 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 2531 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Indemnity costs are exceptional. They require conduct or circumstances taking the case outside the ordinary standard-basis regime; dishonesty or moral blame is…
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18 |
| 13 Feb 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 4 · Supreme Court
An estate-agent contract is not necessarily incomplete because the parties omitted expressly to identify the event triggering commission. The agreement must be…
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18 |
| 12 Nov 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1563 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Housing, Grants (Construction and Regeneration) Act 1996 s.111(1) is a cash-flow measure. It requires prompt payment of a sum which has become due under the…
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17 |
| 26 Mar 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 827 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning policy must be interpreted objectively, by reading its language in its proper context, while recognising that a development plan is not a statute or…
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14 |
| 21 Dec 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1366 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a company’s direct claim against former administrators is defeated by their statutory release, the liquidator may be substituted as claimant after expiry…
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13 |
| 7 May 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 566 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an appeal against a planning enforcement notice, an inspector must consider an obvious alternative which emerges from the appellant’s submissions and may…
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8 |
| 16 Dec 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 3276 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A party repudiates a commercial contract only where, viewed objectively in all the circumstances, its conduct clearly shows an intention to abandon and refuse…
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8 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 29 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1288 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A statement of case may be struck out where it is incoherent, discloses no legally recognisable claim, or omits the essential facts needed to establish…
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| 13 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1135 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Directors who cause a company to enter into a high-risk tax scheme must consider the company’s ability to meet any resulting tax liability and, where engaged…
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| 7 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1045 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of a power of advancement, “benefit” is construed broadly. It may include material and moral benefit to the beneficiary, including relief from…
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| 13 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 618 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On summary judgment, a company may be bound by factual findings in earlier proceedings where it was a privy of the earlier parties or where relitigation would…
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| 6 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 209 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The second category of the Public Trustee v Cooper jurisdiction concerns the propriety of exercising an established trust power, not whether the power exists…
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| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 94 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A party with a right to rescind for misrepresentation may affirm the contract by making a clear and unequivocal election between inconsistent courses of…
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| 14 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2975 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For statutory interpretation, the ordinary meaning of the enacted words remains the starting point. Context, legislative purpose and the mischief addressed may…
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| 22 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1353 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining meaning in a defamation claim, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning conveyed by the publication as a whole to the…
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| 12 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1159 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Summary judgment is inappropriate where a claim turns on disputed allegations of forgery, fraud, knowledge or authority and the evidence requires disclosure…
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| 19 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 571 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 6 to the Electricity Act 1989, a deemed contract ordinarily arises between the supplier and the occupier or occupiers of the…
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| 14 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 606 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application under Civil Procedure Rules 1998 Part 11, the defendant must show that another available forum is clearly and distinctly more appropriate.…
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| 26 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 412 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining meaning in a libel claim, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning conveyed to the hypothetical reasonable reader. The…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Wedlake Bell: Moon Beever, Stitt & Co, Cumberland Ellis.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Wedlake Bell 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 Wedlake Bell. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.