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Settling Claims: Counting the cost of rejection
The High Court has ruled that a claimant’s part 36 offer was a counter offer, consequently an earlier without prejudice offer was no longer open for acceptance. Gemma Witherington reports ‘It has long been the position that, unless it is withdrawn, a Part 36 offer can be accepted notwithstanding any prior rejection or counter offer.’In …
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- DB UK Bank Ltd (T/A DB Mortgages) v Jacobs Solicitors [2016] EWHC 1614 (Ch)
- Gibbon v Manchester City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 726
- Sampla v Rushmoor Borough Council [2008] EWHC 2616 (TCC)