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Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP is named as solicitors in at least 207 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in public and administrative law and commercial disputes.

207
judgments
41
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
42
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law47
  • Commercial disputes45
  • Planning and environment27
  • Construction and engineering21
  • Insolvency and restructuring19
  • Professional liability19
  • Trusts, wills and private client18
  • Company and partnership17

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)39
  • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)3
  • High Court157
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal4
  • Upper Tribunal3

Counsel most often instructed

  • Andrew Simmonds8
  • Joseph Goldsmith7
  • Paul Newman5
  • Gregory Jones4
  • Jamie Smith4
  • Michael Hicks4
  • Peter Fraser4
  • Steven Walker4

Judgments by year

  • 20264
  • 20255
  • 20248
  • 202311
  • 202213
  • 20213
  • 20208
  • 20197
  • 201815
  • 20176
  • 201610
  • 201510
  • 201415
  • 20133
  • 201210
  • 201111
  • 201014
  • 200912
  • 20085
  • 200714

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
17 Jul 2009
[2009] EWHC 1729 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Possible alternative sites are generally a potentially relevant planning consideration. They do not, however, create a legal duty to investigate alternatives…
34
15 Mar 2019
[2019] EWHC 606 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
This judgment holds that the contracts between sub-postmasters and Post Office Ltd were relational contracts. They carried an implied duty of good faith…
28
18 Jan 2012
[2012] EWCA Civ 321 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For environmental impact assessment scoping, the project is ordinarily the development for which authorisation is sought. A proposal does not become part of a…
28
1 Jun 2012
[2012] EWHC 1524 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An interim injunction enforcing a restraint which will expire before judgment ordinarily requires the claimant to show that it is likely to succeed at trial. A…
18
2 Mar 2009
[2009] EWCA Civ 107 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The Aarhus Convention is not directly enforceable in domestic law. Its principles may inform the exercise of a costs discretion, but a party relying on them…
16
19 May 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 523 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For environmental impact assessment purposes, cumulative effects are determined as a question of fact. A functional or operational link between developments is…
15
18 Feb 2021
[2021] EWHC 326 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009, a decision-maker must have sufficient environmental information to…
14
28 Jun 2010
[2010] EWHC 1573 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
The court held that a pension scheme trustee’s power to amend its rules may extend to imposing substantially greater contribution obligations, including…
12
30 Jul 2010
[2010] EWCA Civ 894 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A local authority may impose lawful limits on the functions delegated to a committee. It cannot require the committee to decide a question by a special…
11
10 Nov 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 1708 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Permission to appeal on a question of law from an arbitral award concerning a private, one-off contractual provision may be granted under section 69(3)(c)(i)…
9

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
26 Aug 2026
[2026] UKUT 319 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For compensation for severance, the primary valuation of retained land is made as at the date of severance. Later events cannot change that valuation, but…
21 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1840 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning policy requiring purpose-built student accommodation to be secured for students by an agreement with a higher education provider does not, without…
13 May 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 575 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For protection under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 to be excluded by section 28, the landlord and tenant must have a binding and mutually…
19 Aug 2025
[2025] UKUT 274 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Compensation for compulsory acquisition must reflect the owner’s loss, assessed on the principle of equivalence. Where a business is extinguished, compensation…
1
13 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1455 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Planning policy should be interpreted straightforwardly and without importing the linguistic rigour used for statutes or contracts. A policy requiring an…
6 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1381 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 is amended after one year, the limitation period is not necessarily fixed at one year. It may be longer if the…
17 Apr 2025
[2025] EWHC 878 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual obligation to procure highway adoption remains binding unless the contract is rescinded or rectified. A common mistake does not render an…
14 Aug 2024
[2024] EAT 115 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
A claimant must establish a disability at the material time. A tribunal is not required to analyse the effect of treatment under Schedule 1 where there is no…
8 Jul 2024
[2024] EWHC 1766 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For an application to set aside a statutory demand, “substantial grounds” require a genuine triable issue, equivalent in substance to a real prospect of…
22 May 2024
[2024] EWHC 1572 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In assessing carbon emissions from a nationally significant infrastructure project, the decision-maker may use professional judgment to determine whether the…
8 May 2024
[2024] EWCA Civ 477 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Notice-of-claim clauses in share purchase agreements are contractual limitation provisions. Their requirements must be interpreted primarily from their wording…
2
18 Mar 2024
[2024] EWHC 573 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An adjournment of a trial on medical grounds is a case-management decision governed by the overriding objective. The central question is whether proceeding…

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP: Bond Pearce.

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