Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Winston Taylor acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 4 May 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 1040 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent monopoly must correspond to the disclosed technical contribution. Where obtaining and testing an individual enantiomer is an obvious goal, invention…
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99 |
| 27 Mar 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 15 · Supreme Court
Obviousness under section 3 of the Patents Act 1977 requires a fact-specific assessment of all relevant circumstances. Uninventive work which the skilled…
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79 |
| 10 Apr 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 311 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An ordinary product claim is sufficiently enabled where the specification, read with common general knowledge, enables the skilled person to make the claimed…
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49 |
| 25 Nov 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 3102 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Article 6(1) of the Judgments Regulation does not permit a claimant with no claim against an English-domiciled anchor defendant to found jurisdiction over a…
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46 |
| 29 Oct 2014 |
[2014] UKSC 55 · Supreme Court
The illegality defence is a rule of law founded on public policy, rather than a discretion to balance culpability, proportionality or the parties’ merits.…
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33 |
| 23 May 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 658 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A cross-undertaking supporting an interim injunction benefits only the persons identified in it. It is an undertaking to the court, rather than a contract…
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27 |
| 19 Mar 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 622 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court retains flexible control under Civil Procedure Rules r 3.1(7) over procedural directions, including directions made by consent. The usual requirement…
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27 |
| 13 May 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 569 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Withdrawal of an employment tribunal claim does not itself amount to unreasonable conduct or create a general liability for costs. The tribunal must consider…
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26 |
| 6 Mar 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 153 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Actions in different Member States are related under Article 28 of Regulation 44/2001 only where their connection is sufficiently close, and the risk of…
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23 |
| 22 May 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 583 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant has lost at trial, an interim injunction pending appeal requires a real prospect of success. The court must then assess all relevant…
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22 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1994 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In patent litigation, managing confidential technical information requires a balance between the receiving party’s access to relevant material and protection…
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| 23 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1871 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to continue a common-law double derivative claim requires more than pleading an arguable breach. The claimant must show, on the totality of the…
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| 16 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1808 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 13(1)(b) of the Coroners Act 1988, the question is whether the interests of justice make a further inquest either necessary or desirable. A fresh…
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| 26 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1599 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Litigation costs incurred in proceedings are generally recoverable only through the applicable costs regime, not as substantive damages in the same or later…
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| 2 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1312 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning authority assessing whether a mixed use amounts to a material change must identify the character of the established lawful use and compare it with…
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| 24 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 725 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A court may determine issues raised by an application before determining other issues under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, rule 3.1(2)(k), including where the…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 357 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual commission is payable where an investment satisfies the agreed definitions when the investment is made. “Synthetic asset backed securities” may…
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| 12 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 281 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A party debarred from defending remains unable to participate substantively in the proceedings, subject to the limited terms of the debarring order and any…
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| 6 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 220 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Where a subcontract is made with joint-venture entities, the constituent companies are not separate contractual “Parties” merely because they sign the deed or…
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| 22 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1687 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For novelty under the Patents Act 1977, a prior-art document must disclose the claimed invention in a way that is enabling. Where disclosure is implicit, the…
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| 17 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3278 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Applications to set aside an order for alternative service and an appeal against that order may be pursued in the alternative. The set-aside application…
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| 5 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3204 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In commercial litigation, identifying the party ordered to pay money is a highly relevant starting point for determining costs, but it is not decisive in every…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Winston Taylor: Taylor Wessing LLP, Winston & Strawn LLP, Taylor Joynson Garrett.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Winston Taylor 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 Winston Taylor. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.