A report by Tom Gibson in PI Brief Update makes worrying reading. The headline reads
" Would a district judge strike out a costs budget because it contained the phrase “[Statement of truth]”, in square brackets, rather than the full statement of truth wording? Yes, in this particular case, so be wa...
A trap for the unwary, but one created very much by the Ministry of Justice itself. Why they saw fit to create, distribute and publish (on their Civil Procedure Rules pages no less) a Precedent H template which omitted the appropriate statement of truth I will never know.
I trust the Ministry of Justice will be immediately changing the Precedent H pdf templates on their website (http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/pdf/update/precedent-h.pdf and http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/courts/cpr/pd3e-precedent-h.xls) to do away with the square brackets and replace it with the standard PD22 2.2A wording from the get go.
Or perhaps not.