Barclays Bank Plc v Marsden
Decision date: 28 May 2019
Neutral citation: Neutral citation not available
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
Short overview
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This is the claimant bank's application to strike out the defendant's Defence and Counterclaim concerning a £608,601.14 redress award said by the defendant to have been wrongfully withheld and whether that award was subject to bankruptcy set-off. The judge treated the question as a pure point of law but refused the defendant's proposed amendment and struck out the counterclaim as both incapable of success and an abuse of process. The court therefore dismissed the defendant's attempt to litigate the set-off point in these proceedings.
Ratio decidendi
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Where a party seeks to raise in subsequent proceedings an issue that could and should have been advanced in earlier proceedings between the same parties on the same or closely allied facts, permitting that later claim is an abuse of process and the later claim or amendment may be struck out.
Obiter dicta
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No clear obiter dicta can safely be identified from the judgment.
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