SERVICE POINTS 53: HOW DOES THE COURT PROTECT THE POSITION OF A PARTY WHO WANTS TO APPEAL DECISION IN RELATION TO JURISDICTION BUT RISKS “ACCEPTING” JURISDICTION IN THE MEANTIME? A PUZZLE SOLVED BY THE COURT OF APPEAL
This judgment highlights the risk that a party who wishes to dispute jurisdiction can accidentally accept it. What, if any, steps should the courts take to protect an appellant in these circumstances. The litigant may wish to appeal to a…
PART 36: ACCEPTANCE, WITHDRAWAL AND PROTECTED PARTIES: HIGH COURT DECISION
In Wormald v Ahmed [2021] EWHC 973 (QB) Ms Clare Ambrose (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) considered the difficult issue of whether a protected party can accept a Part 36 offer and its interaction with the need for…
THE NEW PART 36 PART 2: OTHER EFFECTS OF ACCEPTING A PART 36 OFFER
This is the second part of a series dealing with the new provisions of Part 36 which comes into force on the 6th April 2015. The first in the series can be found here. Here we look at the new…
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