BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU SERVE A NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT: PAYING PARTY ESTOPPED FROM TAKING A POINT AS TO SERVICE
In Edray Ltd -v- Canning [2015] EWHC 2744 (Ch) Stephen Jourdan QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) considered an issue relating to estoppel and waiver when a Notice of Commencement had not been properly served. “The bill of…
CLARIFICATION OF A PART 36 OFFER HAS A MAJOR EFFECT ON COSTS
CPR 36.8 STATES “(1) The offeree may, within 7 days of a Part 36 offer being made, request the offeror to clarify the offer”. In Bailes -v- Bloom (23/11/2015, Simler J QBD)* the fact that clarification had been provided had…