Wheeldon Brothers Waste Ltd v Millennium Insurance Company Ltd
Decision date: 18 October 2018
Neutral citation: [2018] EWCA Civ 2403
Court: Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: high
Short overview
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This was an application by Millennium for permission to appeal a TCC judgment that Wheeldon was entitled to indemnity after a fire; Millennium relied on alleged breaches of policy conditions precedent. The Court of Appeal refused permission to appeal, holding that the CPR r.52.6(1) test applies and observing that challenges to trial findings of fact and expert assessment in TCC cases will rarely succeed.
Ratio decidendi
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The applicable test for permission to appeal is CPR r.52.6(1), and appellate courts should generally defer to trial judges on findings of fact and evaluations of expert evidence, so wide-ranging appeals on such matters will rarely have a real prospect of success.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment may be referred to in other TCC cases for guidance and the court praised the deputy judge’s clear and prompt handling of a complex factual and expert evidence trial.
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