Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - August 2016
9 August 2016
The latest edition of "Contentious Commentary", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.
This edition covers the following key issues:
- Settlement set aside for fraud in underlying claim
- Collateral lies do not invalidate insurance claim
- Part 36 is contractual counter-offer
- Agent's authority can be taken away in breach of contract
- Improper threats cannot be without prejudice
- Breach terminates a contract automatically
- Misselling claim fails
- Political party constitution is a contract
- There is a tort of malicious prosecution of civil claims
- Illegality requires a multi-factorial approach
- Regulators must behave consistently
- Paying a debt is not dealing with it
- Limitation of defences to a contribution claim
- Consular premises immune from enforcement
- Article 50 and all that
