APPLYING TO HAVE JUDGMENT SET ASIDE: BE QUICK TO BE SAFE: DELAY IN MAKING APPLICATION MEANT IT WAS “RIGHT ON THE LINE”

In Mountain Ash Portfolio Ltd v Vasilyev [2021] EWHC 1853 (Comm) Stephen Houseman QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, set aside a default judgment. However this was done by the narrowest of margins, the delay in making the application led to the decision being "right on the line".  The judgmen...