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Amendment: Pleading awful
Verity Altaras discusses the court’s approach to amending particulars of claim in light of the Jackson reforms ‘The willingness to meet the costs and belief in the indispensability of the amendment is not enough. The success of the application to amend hinges on the unearthing of the “real dispute” between the parties and the strength …
Cases Referenced
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- Clarapede and Co v Commercial Union Association (1883) 32 WR 262
- Cobbold v London Borough of Greenwich [1999] EWCA Civ 2074
- Hague Plant Ltd v Hague [2014] EWHC 568 (Ch); [2014] EWCA Civ 1609
- Ketteman v Hansel Properties Ltd [1987] AC 189
- McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd [1999] EWCA Civ 1464; [2001] EWCA Civ 933
- Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1537
- Pell v Express Newspapers [2009] EWHC 118 (QB)