“THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF ADEQUATE PLEADINGS”: CASE REFERRED BACK FOR A SECOND TRIAL BECAUSE CLAIMANT’S PARTICULARS DID NOT STATE THE CASE IT ADVANCED

Anyone who thinks that the rules relating to pleadings are now more relaxed and less important should read the decision of Mr Justice Cotter in Charles Russell Speechlys LLP v Beneficial House (Birmingham) Regeneration LLP [2021] EWHC 3458 (QB).  This case, in fact teaches two things: (i) the import...