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Personal injury, costs, disapplication of QOCS where the claim was made for the benefit of a third party. The two gateways in CPR 44.16(2)(a) and (b) depended on who benefitted from the claim: if a third party benefitted then gateway…
Civil procedure, pleadings, lifting the value. The Claimant brought a claim for personal injury and originally limited his claim to Fast Track levels. Standard directions were issued including permission to file and serve an updated schedule of loss. The Claimant’s…
Contempt: procedure, permission and prison capacity. In a contempt application the Court considered when permission is required in relation to allegations of interference with the administration of justice in ‘existing’ proceedings and the relevance of overlapping allegations which do require…
Contempt: basis and sentencing. In a contempt application, a Claim Notification Form could form the basis for contempt, just as with pleadings and statements. When sentencing, the Court could impose a fine if the exceptionality of the circumstances justifies the…
Fundamental dishonesty and costs. There was no presumption that a successful Claimant would receive indemnity costs where the Defendant’s allegations of fundamental dishonesty failed. The default position is that standard costs are payable unless the receiving party could demonstrate why…
Dishonest litigant sentenced to 5 months’ immediate custody for false personal injury claim. Paul McGrath and James Henry, instructed by Benjamin Leech of Keoghs LLP, secured a committal order of immediate imprisonment for 5 months for contempt of court against…
Claim for National Minimum Wage pursued by foster carer providing emergency foster care. Whether salaried worker, whether unmeasured worker, whether ‘on call’ was time at work.
Claim in the Admiralty Division for an accident aboard a tender vessel. The judgment considers questions of the scope of the Athens Convention along with whether liability was established for an accident aboard a third party’s vessel.
Alleged fraud case. Court of Appeal decision following an insurers appeal against a finding that an accident had been proven on a balance of probabilities. Guidance given on when an appeal Court can interfere, when an acquittal of fraud can…
