The Weekly Law Reports
[2012] 1 WLR 3739
Queen’s Bench Division
*Dunhill v Burgin (No 2)
[2012] EWHC 3163 (QB)
2012 Oct 3,
4;
Nov 9
Bean J
Practice— Parties— Mental capacity— Legally represented claimant compromising claim for personal injuries— Consent order giving effect to compromise— Claimant later found to have lacked capacity at time of compromise— Lack of capacity not known to parties at time of compromise— Whether valid settlement of claim—
CPR
rr 21.1(2), 21.2(1), 21.10(1)