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Solicitors Negligence Claim
In the solicitors negligence claim of Platform Funding Ltd –v- Miller Parris Solicitors the solicitors firm acted for the Claimant and the borrower. The Judge awarded the lender summary judgment for breach of contract and breach of duty against the solicitors.
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Solicitors Negligence; AIB Group (UK) Plc –v- Mark Redler & Co 2012
The Defendant’s solicitors acted for the bank, AIB Group and the Borrower as to a re-mortgage of £3.3 million. The solicitors were to use the mortgage advance to discharge an existing mortgage to Barclays Bank.
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Copyright claim struck out,
In Sullivan v Bristol Film Studios Ltd [2012] EWCA civ 570 the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from a strike out of a claim for copyright. The claim was struck out as an abuse of the process of the court because the costs of fighting the dispute would be out of all proportion to the amount that the claimant was likely to recover.