Rosgosstrakh Ltd v Yapi Kredi Finansal Kiralama AO & Anor
Decision date: 20 December 2017
Neutral citation: [2017] EWHC 3377 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: high
Short overview
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This is an application by the insurer to substitute the correct claimant entity name after proceedings had been issued and after limitation had expired. The material issue was whether the court had jurisdiction under CPR 19.5 and whether it was just to permit substitution despite the limitation point and a prior misnaming. The court granted the application, substituting Rosgosstrakh Insurance Company (Public Joint Stock Company) for Rosgosstrakh Limited.
Ratio decidendi
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The court held that it had jurisdiction under CPR 19.5 to substitute the correctly named claimant and that, in the exercise of its discretion, substitution was justly permitted despite the expiry of the limitation period.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment contains statements that the claimant’s nondisclosure of the correct name was inadvertent, that the defendant suffered no prejudice from the misnaming, that substitution will have retrospective effect to the date of issue, and that loss of a time-bar defence is not a weighty factor in such applications.
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