DISHONEST EXAGGERATION WAS NOT SUFFICIENTLY SIGNIFICANT TO AMOUNT TO FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY: THIS WAS DISHONEST EMBELLISHMENT TO UNDERPIN AN ESSENTIALLY HONEST CLAIM

In Boyd v Hughes [2025] EWHC 435 (KB)  Mr Justice Cotter decided, by the very narrowest of margins, that the claimant's deliberate exaggeration of her claim did not amount to fundamental dishonesty.    There was some exaggeration of the effect of the injuries.  However this exaggeration would not ha...