The preliminary issues of liability were to be agreed on the basis of the pleadings which includes the claim and the counter claim.
The claimants succeeded at first instance on
the preliminary issues of liability and causation.
Not exact matches
The plaintiffs sued separately and the Superior Court dealt with the
preliminary issue in each case
of whether the waiver
of liability was operative and enforceable.
The judge ruled on the hearing
of a
preliminary issue that the agreement by the solicitors to discharge a client's «remaining
liability» under the loan agreement applied even though the loan agreement was unenforceable by virtue
of CCA 1974.
In EAD Solicitors LLP v Abrams (UKEAT / 0054/15 / DM), the EAT considered as a
preliminary issue whether a corporate body which was a member
of a limited
liability partnership could claim for direct age discrimination.