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Setting aside a Notice of Discontinuance and QOCS

Setting aside a Notice of Discontinuance and QOCS

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19th Jan 2023

Conduct, Costs, CPR & Courts, CPR 3.4(2)(b), CPR 38.4, CPR 44.15c, Enforcement of Costs Orders, Legal principles, Notice of discontinuance, QOCS

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The Court of Appeal held that a District Judge had been wrong to set aside a Notice of Discontinuance, served after the trial of a personal injury action had commenced. Accordingly, the claimant did not lose the protection of QOCS.

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Setting aside a Notice of Discontinuance and QOCS

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Setting aside a Notice of Discontinuance and QOCS

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