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Wilkin Chapman LLP

Wilkin Chapman LLP is named as solicitors in at least 28 UK judgments from 2005 to 2026, most often in public and administrative law and planning and environment.

28
judgments
8
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
10
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law7
  • Planning and environment6
  • Commercial disputes5
  • Insolvency and restructuring5
  • Real estate5
  • Tax3
  • Employment2
  • Company and partnership2

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)9
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)1
  • High Court13
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal1
  • Upper Tribunal3

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20253
  • 20241
  • 20232
  • 20221
  • 20211
  • 20202
  • 20193
  • 20182
  • 20171
  • 20161
  • 20152
  • 20141
  • 20130
  • 20120
  • 20111
  • 20101
  • 20093
  • 20081
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Wilkin Chapman LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
3 Dec 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 1243 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning decision affecting a listed building or its setting must give considerable importance and weight to the desirability of preservation. A reasons…
42
8 May 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 599 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
When deciding whether inappropriate development in the Green Belt is justified by very special circumstances, a planning authority must consider every matter…
6
12 Feb 2021
[2021] UKSC 4 · Supreme Court
Registration of land as a town or village green gives the public a general right to use it for lawful sports and pastimes. That right is subject to reasonable…
5

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
30 Apr 2026
[2026] EWHC 1009 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A preference may arise where an insolvent company repays a creditor under an arrangement whose purpose is to place that creditor ahead of others. A…
7 Oct 2025
[2025] EWHC 2510 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A party has a fair opportunity to be heard on a costs application where the application is notified in advance, the party is represented, and the tribunal…
15 Oct 2024
[2024] EAT 171 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Whether underpayments form a series of unlawful deductions is a fact-sensitive question. It requires consideration of their similarities, differences…
20 Oct 2023
[2023] EWHC 2573 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The court construed a consent order according to its substance and context. A provision making no order as to costs of a discontinued application also covered…
14 Jun 2023
[2023] UKUT 135 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
An order for costs under rule 13(1)(b) of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013 may be made only against a person who has…
18 Jan 2022
[2022] EWHC 39 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Rateable occupation is a question of fact. The statutory liability framework does not create a presumption of law that an owner is the rateable occupier…
12 Feb 2021
[2021] UKSC 4 · Supreme Court
Registration of land as a town or village green gives the public a general right to use it for lawful sports and pastimes. That right is subject to reasonable…
5
9 Nov 2020
[2020] EWHC 2944 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For package holidays performed abroad, the organiser’s contractual obligation to exercise reasonable skill and care is governed by English law. Local safety…
19 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 1920 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Priority between competing writs of control is determined by the time when each writ is received by the person under a duty to endorse it. From that time, the…
8 Jul 2019
[2019] EWHC 1763 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An application to annul a bankruptcy order may be an abuse of process where an earlier, materially identical application was struck out for failure to comply…
1
7 Jun 2019
[2019] EWHC 1383 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A disposition made after presentation of a winding-up petition is void unless validated. A validation order is exceptional. Ordinary-course dealing, good faith…
1
15 Nov 2018
[2018] EWHC 3100 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When a bankruptcy order was properly made but is later rescinded because the underlying liability is removed, costs are considered under separate regimes. The…
2

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