The Importance of Making a Strategic Part 36 Offer
What does a Part 36 offer mean? Part 36 offer in the Civil Procedure Rules is a provision which aims to encourage parties to try to settle their…
What does a Part 36 offer mean? Part 36 offer in the Civil Procedure Rules is a provision which aims to encourage parties to try to settle their…
In Pallett v MGN Ltd, a case concerning the newspaper phone hacking scandal, the High Court orders the Defendant, owner of the Mirror newspaper, to pay all of the Claimant’s costs of the proceedings, despite arguments that they had accepted the settlement offer outside of the 21 day relevant period under CPR Part 36.
Once proceedings have started, it is not correct to assume that all bets are off and it is too late to accept an offer (in all circumstances). In fact, offers that are not time-limited, not withdrawn, and not a Part 36 offer are open for acceptance during a hearing (and therefore capable of acceptance when a party is in the best possible position to know what a judge will order).
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