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ADVOCACY THE JUDGE'S VIEW: SERIES 2 PART 8: EFFECTIVE WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS: "FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT" & THE "CHUNKIFICATION" OF ARGUMENTS

ADVOCACY THE JUDGE’S VIEW: SERIES 2 PART 8: EFFECTIVE WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS: “FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT” & THE “CHUNKIFICATION” OF ARGUMENTS

March 19, 2018 · by gexall · in Advocacy, Members Content, Written advocacy

This series certainly takes us around the globe.  Here I am looking at a paper written by Justice Susan Glazebrook, a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Her paper on “Effective written submissions” written in 2014. As always…

RELIEF FROM SANCTIONS : A CLASSIC CASE FOR RELIEF TO BE GRANTED: NOTICE TO PROVE SERVED LATE

RELIEF FROM SANCTIONS : A CLASSIC CASE FOR RELIEF TO BE GRANTED: NOTICE TO PROVE SERVED LATE

March 19, 2018 · by gexall · in Disclosure, Members Content, Relief from sanctions

In Tuke v JD Classics Ltd [2018] EWHC 531 (QB) Mr Justice Julian Knowles granted a claimant relief from sanctions when a “Notice to Prove” was served late.  It is a reminder, amongst other things, of the need to serve a…

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