The WLR Daily case summaries
[2019] WLR(D) 637
Queen’s Bench Division
Sabbagh v Khoury and others
[2019] EWHC 3004 (Comm)
2019 Oct 10, 11; Nov 14
Judge Pelling QC sitting as a High Court judge
Practice— Pleadings— Amendment— Admissions— Claimant making concession at early stage of claim— Foreign defendants ordered to submit to jurisdiction acknowledging service and accepting jurisdiction of English courts to claims set out in claim form and subject to concession— Claimant’s reply purporting to disavow concession and introduce new causes of action— Claimant applying for declarations that concession not “admission” for purposes of rule or for permission to withdraw concession— Defendants applying for new causes of action to be struck out— Whether foreign defendants entitled to qualify acknowledgments of service— Whether new causes of action in reply to be struck out— Whether claimant’s concession constituting “admission”— Whether permission to withdraw admission to be granted—
CPR
r 14.1, Practice Direction 14, para 7.2(c)(d)