REFUSAL OF EXTENSION OF TIME TO SERVE PARTICULARS OF CLAIM: AEI –v- ALSTOM UK CONSIDERED
Cases relating to relief from sanctions are being reported on a daily basis. Here we look at the decision yesterday of Mr Justice Smith in Associated Electrical Industries Ltd –v- Alstom Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 4330 (Com). A case where…
CIVIL PROCEDURE AND THE SECRET STATE: HOW FAR CAN IT GO?
Yesterday I wrote of problems when the court was refusing to issue proceedings alleging (wrongly) that they were statute barred. It is becoming frightening that important issues of law are being made (or purportedly made) by administrators. This led to…

