Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Winckworth Sherwood acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 13 Nov 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1202 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Compensation for discriminatory dismissal is assessed by comparing the claimant’s actual position with the position absent discrimination. A real chance of…
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39 |
| 12 Jun 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 1895 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A second planning application for an identical or similar development is not automatically affected by apparent bias merely because an earlier permission is…
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26 |
| 19 Dec 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 4325 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In reviewing a planning permission, the court reads the officers’ report fairly and as a whole, recognising that it is addressed to an informed planning…
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16 |
| 1 Mar 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 9 · Supreme Court
Under section 40(2) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, a rent repayment order may be made only against the immediate landlord under the tenancy which…
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11 |
| 20 May 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 537 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A planning authority may permit development within the Green Belt while a parallel local-plan process proposes altering the Green Belt boundary. Paragraph 83…
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9 |
| 19 Sep 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 2999 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A descriptive educational name may support passing off only if it has acquired a secondary meaning identifying the claimant’s services to the relevant public.…
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4 |
| 7 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2089 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A statutory review of a planning decision may succeed where an Inspector misapplies future legislation, fails to give an intelligible planning balance, departs…
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4 |
| 17 Jan 2022 |
[2022] UKUT 8 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For a valuation of consideration under paragraph 24 of the Electronic Communications Code, the statutory assumption of an arm’s-length transaction between…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Aug 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 299 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Whether an occupier who remains after a lease expires is a tenant at will or a periodic tenant depends on the parties’ objectively assessed intention in all…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1446 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a purchaser fails to complete a land sale, the vendor’s loss is ordinarily measured by the contract price less the price obtained on a subsequent resale.…
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| 30 Apr 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 163 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For the purposes of section 23(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, “premises” may include an easement which, when exercised, is occupied for business…
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| 29 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1992 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In environmental impact assessment, the adequacy of an environmental statement is ordinarily a matter of planning judgment. The court will intervene only on…
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1 |
| 28 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 471 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An interim anti-social behaviour injunction may be continued where the statutory conditions are satisfied and the evidence establishes a real risk of…
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| 27 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 132 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
At the pre-claim stage, the court may consider interim relief in proposed judicial review proceedings. The absence of an issued claim is not a jurisdictional…
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| 8 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2831 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 scheme, a dwelling is treated as unfit for human habitation while a landlord fails to comply with the…
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1 |
| 7 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2089 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A statutory review of a planning decision may succeed where an Inspector misapplies future legislation, fails to give an intelligible planning balance, departs…
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4 |
| 25 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2321 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For Community Infrastructure Levy purposes, the statutory meaning of building is not enlarged by the broad purpose of the levy or by the wider definition in…
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| 17 Jan 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 57 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning permission for a large, integrated development is not severable merely because it provides for phasing, reserves details for later approval, or…
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2 |
| 20 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1890 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application for specific disclosure, the court should first identify whether the documents fall within standard disclosure and then decide whether…
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| 1 Mar 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 9 · Supreme Court
Under section 40(2) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, a rent repayment order may be made only against the immediate landlord under the tenancy which…
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11 |
Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Winckworth Sherwood: Sherwood Solicitors.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Winckworth Sherwood 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 Winckworth Sherwood. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.