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Civil way: 23 September 2016

23 September 2016
Issue: 7715 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Seeing off malicious claims; Triumph for QBD Masters; & Court of Appeal: keep out

Brand new threatener

“On the instructions I have received, your claim against my client now proceeding in the County Court at Macclesfield lacks reasonable and probable cause and you have no bona fide reason for making it. My instructions are that the claim has already caused him injury to his health and financial loss and the longer the claim is allowed to continue, the greater that loss will be. I have advised my client that in commencing and persisting with the claim you have committed the tort of malicious prosecution and in that connection I draw your attention to the majority judgments of the Supreme Court in Willers v Joyce and another [2016] EWHC 1315, [2016] All ER (D) 97 (Jul).

I hereby give you notice that unless within seven days of the date of receipt of this letter and in accordance with r 38.3 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, you discontinue the claim and serve me on behalf of my client

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

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Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

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Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

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Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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