The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 4 WLR 54
Court of Appeal
Seabrook
v
Adam
[2021] EWCA Civ 382
2021 March 10; 18
Lewison, Asplin, Males LJJ
Practice— Settlement of action— Offer to settle— Claimant bringing personal injury claim under two heads of loss— Defendant admitting liability but denying causation— Claimant making offer to settle claim for 90% of damages— Offer letter referring only to “liability” and not to “causation”— Defendant refusing to accept offer— Judge awarding 100% of damages for only one head of claimed loss— Whether claimant having bettered Part 36 offer— Whether claimant’s offer to be construed as also relating to “causation”— Whether offer addressing entirety of claim—
CPR
r 36.5(1)(d)
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