Summary There had been no good reason for ordering that a claimant's emailing a copy of a claim form to the defendant should be permitted as good service. Facts The appellant (B) appealed against a deputy master's order that the emailing to it of a claim form by the respondent ...

Summary A judge had not erred in approving a scheme put forward by the executor of an estate aimed at facilitating the resolution of personal injury claims against the estate. The scheme was neither intrinsically flawed nor one that no reasonable executor could have promoted. Facts The appellant trustees of...

Summary A judge had been right to refuse to allow a claimant to re-amend its particulars of claim. The proposed re-amendments fundamentally recast the particulars of claim, made it five times longer than the original, and did not contain a concise statement of the facts relied upon in support of...

Summary The strong public interest in preserving the integrity of criminal investigations and in protecting those who provided information to prosecuting authorities from any wider dissemination of that information outweighed the interests of a party bringing a claim for damages against the Serious Fraud Office in their disclosure, where that...

Summary The value at which a minority shareholder's shares in a family-run company were to be bought out under an unfair prejudice petition was to be assessed as at the date of the court order. That date had the advantage of certainty and was the most fair out of several...

Summary Although a judge had erred because, in refusing to set aside a statutory demand founded on a unpaid costs order, he had done so on the wrong basis, his decision was upheld because the counterclaim advanced by the subject of the demand in the underlying proceedings which had led...

Summary When a company was being wound up in the jurisdiction where it was incorporated, and where a foreign creditor had submitted a proof of debt to the liquidators, that creditor had submitted to the jurisdiction of the court responsible for administering the insolvency process and could not pursue proceedings...

Summary A judge had been entitled to hold that the trustees of a cricket club had had a tenancy without a lease in writing, where a written agreement they had made had not validly created a tenancy but rent had been paid and accepted. He had also been entitled to...