The CPRC annual open meeting took place today via Teams following last year’s successful online meeting. One of the benefits of the past year’s enforced remote working has been the…
From 1 April 2021 a key change to Part 36 means that additional interest will not be payable where the Part 36 offer is accepted after the relevant period unless…
This article supplements and updates one titled Consequences of Beating a Part 36 Offer: Injustice published on 12 June 2019. The case of Rawbank SA -v- Travelex Banknotes Limited [2020]…
A summary of the rules relating to Part 36 offers which offer to make payments by instalments, and the effect on acceptance or judgment
Where the Court awards an “additional amount” under CPR 36.17(4)(d) as a claimant / receiving party beating its own Part 36 offer, the additional amount will not attract “enhanced” interest under CPR 36.17(4)(a).
A Part 36 offer in detailed assessment proceedings may be valid where it excludes interest under the Judgments Act 1838. In Horne -v- Prescot (No.1) Ltd [2019] EWHC 1322 (QB)…
Various cases have recently considered test of “unjustness” for the purpose of CPR 36.17, however the position remains unclear.
***THIS JUDGMENT HAS NOW BEEN SUPERSEDED*** Senior Courts Costs Office extends the principle in JLE v Warrington & Hamilton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC B18 (Costs). In JLE Master…
