Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Wiggin LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 588 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent obviousness should be assessed by identifying the skilled person and common general knowledge, identifying the claim’s inventive concept or construing…
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193 |
| 9 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 1645 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joint authorship requires collaboration pursuant to a common design, authorial contributions sufficient to express each contributor’s own intellectual…
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86 |
| 31 Oct 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2637 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The repetition rule does not mechanically require a repeated allegation to bear the same, or a guilt-level, meaning as the original allegation. The court must…
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45 |
| 14 Oct 2005 |
[2005] EWHC 2187 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The natural and ordinary meaning of an allegedly defamatory publication is the single meaning conveyed to the ordinary reasonable reader. The court must assess…
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26 |
| 29 Mar 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 608 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A service which systematically indexes infringing material and supplies the means to obtain complete copies may incur liability beyond that of a passive…
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21 |
| 13 Jun 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 28 · Supreme Court
A legally innocent intermediary which is ordered to prevent third parties from using its facilities unlawfully is ordinarily entitled to an indemnity from the…
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18 |
| 26 Mar 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 441 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An online platform communicates copyright works to the public where it knowingly and materially intervenes to give a large body of users convenient access to…
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12 |
| 6 Nov 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 2975 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
At a jurisdiction and summary judgment hearing, a claimant need show a real, rather than fanciful, prospect of success and a good arguable case on the relevant…
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11 |
| 19 May 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 565 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Copyright may subsist in a performing edition of out-of-copyright music where the editor’s independent skill, labour, time and judgment produce an original…
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10 |
| 6 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 1725 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Defamatory opinion remains capable of causing serious reputational harm. The fact that criticism is recognisable as opinion, and is based on facts which are…
|
9 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 663 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of Article 3 of the SPC Regulation, “product” has one meaning across all four conditions. It means the active ingredient or combination of…
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| 18 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1643 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application to strike out an unjust-enrichment claim, the court may decide a pure question of law summarily where the pleaded case is clearly outside the…
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2 |
| 3 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2254 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
The statutory definition of an employment agency requires a business to provide services for the purpose of finding persons employment or supplying employers…
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| 22 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2193 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
For the statutory truth defence, the defendant must prove the substantial truth of the imputation conveyed by each defamatory statement. Where the meaning…
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1 |
| 8 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1083 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A binding commercial contract may be concluded although the parties expect a formal long-form document and further non-essential terms. The court must assess…
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1 |
| 13 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1117 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On applications for strike-out and reverse summary judgment, the court must first ask whether the pleaded facts, assumed to be provable, disclose a complete…
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| 17 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 486 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An asymmetric jurisdiction clause may confer exclusive jurisdiction on the English courts for all claims brought by one party while allowing the other party to…
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2 |
| 21 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 996 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In managing late disclosure during a trial, the court should adopt the fairest and most efficient course consistent with the overriding objective. A witness…
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| 7 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 550 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Specific disclosure of documents already held by a party depends on relevance, necessity for the fair disposal of the proceedings and proportionality. A late…
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| 7 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 517 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Permission to amend shortly before trial is governed by the overriding objective and requires a careful balance between the applicant’s interests and prejudice…
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1 |
| 6 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 994 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a non-jury trial, the court may resolve objections to witness-statement evidence before trial where that is proportionate and assists the proper conduct of…
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| 27 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 444 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual jurisdiction clause must be construed as a whole, giving effect to every part of the agreement. A general exclusive English jurisdiction clause…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Wiggin LLP: Redd Solicitors LLP.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Wiggin 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 Wiggin LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.