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 the High Court case of Essex County Council v UBB Waste (Essex) Ltd (No 3) [2020] EWHC 2387 (TCC), it was held that a Claimant’s Part 36 offer which failed to correctly set out the relevant period was still deemed compliant with Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules.
In a multi million pound breach of contract case, where there was no substantive defence to the claim and the Defendant accepted summary judgment and liability for the Claimant’s costs, the High Court held that a Claimant’s Part 36 offer to accept only 0.3% less than the full sum being claimed was a “genuine offer to settle” under CPR 36.17(5)(e).
The Court of Appeal (Lord Newey, Lord Coulson and Lord Arnold sitting) have handed down the much anticipated judgement in King v City of London Corporation [2019] EWCA…
Katherine Griffiths, of The Times newspaper, reports on our Financial Services Litigation team’s recent success in a swaps mis-selling litigation case where a speculative financial instrument, namely a multi-cancelable swap, was sold…