Law firm

Zaiwalla & Co

Zaiwalla & Co is named as solicitors in at least 78 UK judgments from 2003 to 2025, most often in commercial disputes and arbitration.

78
judgments
12
in the last five years
5
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
23
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes24
  • Arbitration24
  • Cross-border disputes16
  • Public and administrative law11
  • Civil liberties and human rights9
  • Employment6
  • Trusts, wills and private client5
  • Public international law and sanctions4

Courts

  • Supreme Court5
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)23
  • High Court50

Counsel most often instructed

  • Brian Dye15
  • Michael Brindle14
  • Jacob Turner6
  • Stephen Nathan6
  • Jonathan Miller5
  • Amy Rogers4
  • Chirag Karia4
  • Nicholas Vineall3

Judgments by year

  • 20260
  • 20256
  • 20241
  • 20233
  • 20222
  • 20212
  • 20204
  • 20195
  • 20185
  • 20172
  • 20164
  • 201512
  • 20143
  • 20134
  • 20122
  • 20115
  • 20104
  • 20094
  • 20081
  • 20073

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Zaiwalla & Co acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
19 Jun 2013
[2013] UKSC 38 · Supreme Court
The Supreme Court may use a closed material procedure on an appeal where statute authorises closed proceedings below and its appellate jurisdiction, construed…
390
19 Jun 2013
[2013] UKSC 39 · Supreme Court
A measure interfering with a fundamental right must pursue a sufficiently important objective, be rationally connected to that objective, use no more intrusive…
390
20 Feb 2015
[2015] EWHC 404 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
When awarding an interim payment on account of costs, the court must assess recoverable costs objectively. The relevant measure is the lowest sum reasonably…
32
27 Jul 2011
[2011] UKSC 40 · Supreme Court
An arbitrator appointed to determine a dispute is an independent adjudicator, not a person employed under a contract personally to do work. The relevant…
26
15 Mar 2019
[2019] EWCA Civ 449 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An English court may order inspection of documents even where compliance would breach foreign criminal law. Disclosure and inspection are governed by the lex…
24
31 Jul 2018
[2018] EWHC 2032 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Once a court has determined a publication’s actual single meaning as a preliminary issue, a truth defence must address whether the resulting imputation is…
18
20 Dec 2021
[2021] UKSC 57 · Supreme Court
An unequivocal executive statement recognising a foreign head of state conclusively binds the courts under the one voice principle. Its meaning cannot be…
13
23 Oct 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 1052 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The disclosure required by article 6 is context-sensitive. Proceedings challenging financial restrictions must nevertheless satisfy the standard in AF (No.3)…
10
8 May 2024
[2024] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
An appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is confined to a question of law which the tribunal was asked to determine and must proceed on the…
9
16 Jul 2007
[2007] EWHC 1713 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An arbitration agreement governed by English law is construed separately from the underlying contract. A wide clause referring disputes arising out of or…
8

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
24 Nov 2025
[2025] EWHC 3079 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A client-money broker is obliged to comply only with payment instructions falling within the contractual obligation identified from the parties’ express terms…
1
5 Sep 2025
[2025] EWHC 2292 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For service under CPR Part 6.33(2B), the claimant must establish a good arguable case that the claim falls within the relevant gateway. The intended defendant…
4 Jul 2025
[2025] EWHC 1704 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A lower court’s jurisdiction to grant permission to appeal ends when the decision hearing concludes, unless that hearing has been formally adjourned. A…
19 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1523 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In an LMAA arbitration, apparent bias is assessed objectively by asking whether the fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real…
9 Apr 2025
[2025] EWHC 858 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A foreign judgment will create an issue estoppel only where the relevant issue was actually and necessarily determined after full contestation and by a clear…
1
8 May 2024
[2024] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
An appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is confined to a question of law which the tribunal was asked to determine and must proceed on the…
9
28 Jul 2023
[2023] EWHC 1942 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A state which agrees to LCIA arbitration engages the supervisory and ancillary jurisdiction conferred on the English court by the Arbitration Act 1996. A…
30 Jun 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 742 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The one voice principle requires courts to align their treatment of a foreign state’s acts and judgments with the executive’s recognition of the relevant…
11 Jan 2023
[2023] EWCA Civ 7 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under a GAFTA default clause, damages are ordinarily assessed by reference to a notional substitute contract on the same terms as the parties’ bargain, save as…
29 Jul 2022
[2022] EWHC 2040 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Foreign constitutional judgments which expressly quash executive acts may fall within the exception to the foreign act of state principle. That exception does…
18 Feb 2022
[2022] EWHC 354 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under the GAFTA Default Clause, the value of goods for the purpose of assessing damages for non-acceptance is ordinarily assessed by reference to a true…
21 Dec 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 1953 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For Regulation 261/2004, a journey involving several legs is treated as one flight for the territorial gateway where the legs were booked as a single unit. The…
1

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