SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT DISPLACED PART 36 RULES: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ARE OFFERING: TROUBLE AT SEA WHEN TWO RULES COLLIDE

The judgment of Clare Ambrose (sitting as a High Court judge)  in Falcon Trident Shipping Ltd v Levant Shipping Ltd [2021] EWHC 2204 (Comm) held that a settlement agreed drafted after acceptance of a Part 36 offer displaced the provisions of Part 36.

"By the time the matter came to trial the sum in...

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