I may make a habit of blogging cheerful(ish) stuff on a Friday*. This weeks its hats of to Dominic Cooper of IE Legal Solicitors who was sent me details of his run in, and success, with Salford.
THE DISPUTE
Like everyone else a few weeks ago Mr Cooper was issuing proceedings promptly to avoid the in...
CPR 22.1 requires all Statements of Case to be verified by Statement of Truth. CPR 16 covers the contents of Statements of Case and includes Claim Forms. PD 22 para 2.3(1) specifically refers to what the Claim Form’s Statement of Truth should say if contained in a document other than the Claim Form itself.
Granted, this conflicts with the standard form wording of the Claim Form that suggests the signatory is verifying the POCs (probably a long term drafting error), but I don’t think its necessarily safe to run the line that a Claim Form doesn’t need to be signed all that far.