COOKE -v- VENULUM PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LTD [2013] EWHC 4288
Freezing orders are part of the “nuclear weapons” of civil litigation. As such they should be approached with extreme care. This case illustrates the dangers involved when a party seeks a freezing order without notice without a detailed ...
The whole basis of the courts being permitted to grant a freezing order ex-parte simply in order to “protect” a claimant’s perceived success at trial needs to to be looked at. It could be said that freezing orders are being handed like confetti by the High Court in far too many instances.
Far from being the nuclear weapon of civil litigation it has become the “boots on the ground” norm and part of the usual arsenal of attack. The courts should not have the power grant freezers simply in order to support claims which have not even been tried.