ANOTHER CASE ABOUT SETTLEMENT: “FULL AND FINAL SETTLEMENT” OF WHAT? THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING PRECISELY WHAT HAS BEEN SETTLED

Issues relating to the settlement of cases have been a theme this week. Here we look at a case where the defendant argued that the action against it should be struck out because it had been resolved in an earlier settlement. "Applying the approach set out in Bin Obaid the current claims were not in ...