Chandra & Anor v Brooke North & Anor (Rev 3)
Decision date: 8 March 2013
Neutral citation: [2013] EWHC 417 (QB)
Court: High Court (King's Bench Division)
Insurance classification confidence: high
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This case concerns two related actions arising from a hotel redevelopment and contested without-notice amendment applications to the particulars of claim, opposed on grounds that the proposed amendments raised fresh, time-barred causes of action. The Deputy Master had granted permission to amend on 15 November 2011 and the defendants sought to set aside those orders; HHJ Thornton concluded the Master’s orders were valid, dismissed the defendants’ applications, directed the amendment orders be drawn up and sealed, declared the amended claims were brought within three years for the purposes of section 14, and ordered transfer of the actions to the Technology and Construction Court.
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