The HC has heard an appeal on a case in which the defendant was refused permission under CPR 47PD to further amend its points of dispute in the course of an assessment of the claimant’s costs. The defendant sought to raise an issue for the first time regarding the claimant’s CFA in the third version …
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The HC heard an interesting case in which the judge summarised the issue thus: ‘ The principal issue of contention between the parties is, after the introduction of the new CPR Part 81 in October 2020, whether (unless the Court permits alternative service or dispenses with service) an injunction order is required to be served …
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We reported in our March 2022 edition (p26) on an HC case in which the court ordered a defective witness statement to be replaced with a revised statement. It seems that the changes to the requirements for witness statements are still causing practitioners problems as the HC has recently heard another case on the same …
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We do not want to give more oxygen to parties who clearly do not need it, but an interesting point was made in a recent case involving the Duke of Sussex. The case involved judicial review proceedings brought by the Duke of Sussex challenging the legality of decisions taken in 2020 and 2021 concerning the …
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A Commercial Court Practice Note was issued in September 2020, focusing particularly on half-day hearings, which was designed to address the ongoing concerns regarding the ‘noticeable increase in the number of applications and trials for which inaccurate reading and hearing time estimates have been provided’. On 29 March 2022 a further Practice Note was issued …
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