APPLICATION TO SET ASIDE JUDGMENT MADE LATE IN THE DAY: APPEAL AGAINST REFUSAL TO SET JUDGMENT ASIDE ALLOWED

In Priestley -v- Dunbar [2015] EWHC 987 (Ch) H.H.Judge Behrens (sitting as a judge of the High Court) overturned an earlier decision refusing to set judgment aside on the grounds of delay. THE CASE The claimant had obtained default judgment in a claim for professional negligence. Judgment was obtain...