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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Withers LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 3 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 566 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The criterion for a payment on account of costs is a reasonable sum. An irreducible minimum is not the governing test. The court should estimate likely…
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90 |
| 9 May 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 26 · Supreme Court
An exercise of a fiduciary power within its scope is voidable only where inadequate deliberation amounts to a breach of fiduciary duty. Trustees who…
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67 |
| 13 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 169 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claimant in deceit may recover all actual loss directly flowing from the transaction induced by the fraud, subject to causation, remoteness and mitigation.…
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43 |
| 27 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 195 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Civil Procedure Rules 1998 r 36.14(3), enhanced interest after a claimant has bettered its Part 36 offer is not confined to compensation for litigation…
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41 |
| 21 Mar 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 616 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractor’s express confidentiality obligation may continue indefinitely after termination. Its enforceable scope may nevertheless permit personnel to use…
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33 |
| 16 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 2526 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A statutory derivative claim under Part 11 of the Companies Act 2006 must arise from a director’s negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust. It…
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31 |
| 11 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1303 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where parties use solicitors to prepare formal written agreements for execution, the normal inference is that they intend to become bound only when every…
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28 |
| 22 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 300 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Damages for misuse of confidential information must respond to the wrong actually proved. Copying and retaining documents, without use that causes loss or…
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26 |
| 26 Jul 2022 |
[2022] EWCA Civ 1051 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A case-management stay is governed by the single question whether it is in the interests of justice. A stay pending foreign proceedings will ordinarily require…
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22 |
| 3 Jul 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 780 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Acceptance of a repudiatory breach requires a communication which, viewed as a whole, clearly and unequivocally conveys that the aggrieved party is treating…
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18 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 957 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A special administrator has no automatic right to recoup costs from assets in the administration. The administrator must apply to the court for permission, and…
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| 21 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 833 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An agreement to discuss remuneration reasonably is not an enforceable agreement to pay a reasonable fee. Where an express contract cannot be established from a…
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| 12 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 41 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Special administrators should generally exercise their own commercial and administrative judgment. The court should not approve a detailed protocol for a…
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| 17 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3322 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under an information-exchange provision requiring information to be foreseeably relevant, the requested state must identify a reasonable possibility of…
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| 5 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Costs ordinarily follow the event. A party’s limited success on a minor and peripheral issue will not justify reducing the successful party’s costs where that…
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1 |
| 12 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1413 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A proprietary estoppel requires a sufficiently clear assurance relating to an interest in land, reasonable reliance, substantial detriment and…
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| 27 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1182 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An English court with jurisdiction to determine an enforcement claim should ordinarily decide it on the merits. An indefinite stay requires a powerful reason…
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1 |
| 9 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 606 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
At the strike-out or summary-judgment stage, the question is whether a secret-trust claim has a realistic prospect of success, not whether the claimant has…
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1 |
| 21 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 355 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contract-based declarations may be granted where they reflect agreed contractual provisions and serve the interests of finality, but the court should remain…
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| 20 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3322 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For jurisdiction applications, the court must avoid conducting a mini-trial where disputed credibility, authenticity and expert evidence prevent a reliable…
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1 |
| 8 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3466 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A will may be valid despite its unusual form, provided it contains revocable dispositions intended to take effect on death, the testator intended the document…
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| 29 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2714 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a data protection claim concerning media publications, personal data must be identified by reading the publication as a whole and considering the contextual…
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