In a subsequent hearing, the court granted
permission for the claimants to bring an application under the new rules relating to contempt of court.
Judge Simmonds QC, no doubt anticipating the public interest in this case, and perhaps reflecting his own concern, granted
permission for the claimant to appeal; he made no order for costs against the claimant as he had found for him on the two preliminary issues relating to breach and had accepted a significant proportion of the claimant's legal submissions.
Not exact matches
Airey v Taffinder & Ors (Re Hills Solutions Ltd)[2015] EWHC 3854 (Ch) Acted
for Claimant in successfully obtaining
permission to continue a double derivative claim and a full indemnity from the company in respect of a restructuring of the group at an alleged undervalue.
Application was made by the
claimant to revoke a direction giving
permission for expert evidence / clarification of the proposed scope of evidence.
The
claimant's attempts to serve the defendant in London failed, and he therefore applied
for permission to serve the defendant out of the jurisdiction.
Even where there is a dispute between two apparently credible witnesses the court should usually, before giving
permission, be satisfied that the
claimant's contentions about the alleged agreement provided a much better, or at any rate a better, argument in favour of there being the ground
for jurisdiction alleged than of there not being one.
emphasises the difficulties a defendant faces in resisting an application
for permission to serve out of the jurisdiction in a personal injury case where the
claimant is resident in this country and is suffering a continuing loss.
In Shane Anthony Cooley (By His Father and Litigation Friend Peter Anthony Cooley) v Ramsey [2008] EWHC 129 (QB), the High Court was asked to consider whether it had jurisdiction to grant
permission for proceedings to be served in Australia in a case where a British citizen had been left grossly handicapped as a result of a road traffic accident which had occurred in Australia; and whether, if so, it should exercise its discretion in the
claimant's favour.
The
claimant was slow to react to this prompt and only applied
for permission to rely upon evidence on local standards six months later.
The defendant sought
permission to rely on a report from an engineer but this was refused, on the basis that it was
for the
claimant to produce the evidence that she needed to prove her case.
Cooley emphasises the difficulties a defendant faces in resisting an application
for permission to serve out of the jurisdiction in a personal injury case where the
claimant is resident in this country and is suffering a continuing loss.
In order to obtain
permission, the
claimant will have to show (in relation to each cause of action which forms part of the claim) that: (1) there is a serious issue to be tried in relation to the foreign defendant (i.e. the claim must have a real prospect of success); (2) there is a good arguable case that the claim falls within one or more of the «jurisdictional gateways» set out in the Civil Procedure Rules; and (3) England is clearly the appropriate forum
for the case and the Court ought to exercise its discretion to permit service of the proceedings out of the jurisdiction.
Now that
permission has been granted
for our JR I would estimate our costs as
claimant will range from # 20,000 to # 30,000.
The appeal before Mr Justice Briggs was from the decision of Master Price, who had granted the
claimant, the deceased's widower, retrospective
permission to serve a claim form under the Inheritance (Provision
for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (I (PFD) A 1975) out of the jurisdiction.
The first concerned the sale of the club's freehold interest in the ground to the
claimants for # 1.3 m plus a share in the overage attributable to the obtaining of residential planning
permission (the overage), pursuant to a conditional agreement of February 2005, which completed in April 2005.