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Practice and procedure

04 November 2010
Issue: 7440 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Kaye v Lawrence [2010] EWHC 2678 (TCC), [2010] All ER (D) 264 (Oct)

As an appeal under s 10(17) of the Party Walls Act 1996 was a creature of statute, the High Court could not ignore the fact that the county court was the appropriate court. However jurisdiction could be found under s 5(3) of the County Courts Act 1984, which provided that “every judge of the High Court... shall by virtue of his office be capable of sitting as a judge for any county court district in England and Wales”.

Aktas v Adepta, Dixie v British Polythene Industries plc [2010] EWCA Civ 1170, [2010] All ER (D) 223 (Oct)

There was nothing in the established law to the effect that failure to serve a claim form in time for the purposes of CPR 7.6 was an abuse of process, or tantamount to one. For a matter to be an abuse of process, something more than a single negligent oversight in timely service was required. The CPR was strict and would be strictly applied. Negligence of

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