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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Jul 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 781 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Pre-emption rights over shares operate only upon the events which the parties have expressly specified. Practical control over a shareholder, without a…
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| 9 Sep 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 1116 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An English court may determine a jurisdictional challenge to an investor-State award under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996, even where that requires…
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21 |
| 17 May 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 38 · Supreme Court
Modern insolvency legislation must be construed according to its language and scheme. Earlier authorities under materially different legislation do not…
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21 |
| 4 Jul 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 2222 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A trustee may compromise trust claims where the trust instrument or governing statute does not exclude the statutory power of compromise. On an application for…
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16 |
| 14 Jun 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 1655 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court’s inherent jurisdiction to supervise trusts permits directions enabling trustees to distribute trust property on practical assumptions where this is…
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14 |
| 1 Nov 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 70 · Supreme Court
A statutory scheme providing a specific right to interest on overpaid VAT may impliedly exclude concurrent common law claims where those claims would defeat…
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12 |
| 5 Mar 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 521 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In an unfair-prejudice case, late amendments are not justified merely by a costs order. The court must assess the strength of the new case and its effect on…
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11 |
| 1 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 821 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the “no worse off” condition under section 901G of the Companies Act 2006, the court compares the financial value of a creditor’s existing rights in the…
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11 |
| 19 Nov 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 2914 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In determining beneficial ownership of securities held through an intermediary, the court must assess objectively whether the parties intended proprietary…
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9 |
| 8 Mar 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 218 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An English court should exercise great caution before restraining an arbitrator from determining his own jurisdiction where the parties agreed to a foreign…
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9 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 23 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 114 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A director may breach Companies Act 2006, section 171(a), by exercising powers without constitutional authority, even where the conduct is otherwise motivated…
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| 19 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3359 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A Treasury licensing power under the Russia sanctions regime is ancillary to the sanctions themselves and must be exercised consistently with the statutory…
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| 10 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3058 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When sanctioning a Companies Act 2006 Part 26A plan without cross-class cram-down, the court should consider statutory compliance, fair representation and bona…
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| 1 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 821 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the “no worse off” condition under section 901G of the Companies Act 2006, the court compares the financial value of a creditor’s existing rights in the…
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| 3 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1333 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary judgment application, the court must assess the pleaded and evidential case as it stands, while considering evidence reasonably expected to be…
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| 2 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3169 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court may permit an administrator to distribute under paragraph 65(3) of Schedule B1 even where distribution cannot begin immediately, provided…
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| 23 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2194 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A publisher relying on statutory reporting privilege must establish that the publication is a fair and accurate report or extract and that the relevant source…
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| 1 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1777 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At the convening stage of a scheme of arrangement, the court may approve a scheme which uses the insolvency rules as a modified base and adds contractual…
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| 22 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 389 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a defamation claim involving a report of court proceedings, statutory qualified privilege under Defamation Act 1996, section 15 and Schedule 1, is a…
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| 21 Dec 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 3317 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where litigation involves distinct applications or issues, costs should ordinarily reflect the separate success or failure of each materially distinct step. A…
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| 29 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 3056 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual subordination provisions determine priority between subordinated claims, subject to the insolvency rules as interpreted in their contractual…
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| 28 Sep 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2497 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
At a convening hearing for a restructuring plan, the court does not determine the plan’s merits or fairness. It considers whether the statutory jurisdictional…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP: Weil.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) 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 Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.