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Part 36 Developments
A look at recent cases on, escaping the usual costs consequences and what constitutes a genuine attempt to settle
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Part 36 offer for defendant to accept 95%: was this a genuine attempt to settle?
The issue of whether a Part 36 offer is a “genuine attempt to settle the claim” is not new. The Civil Procedure Rules Committee recognised its importance by including it in the 2015 amendments to Part…
Read morePart 36 offers: whether genuine attempt to settle
When Part 36 was reformed in April, one of the amendments was aimed at addressing “cynical Part 36 offers”. The court always had to consider a number of factors when deciding whether it is unjust to…
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