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PI Practitioner, July 2015

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In June the Divisional Court handed down judgment in a judicial review claim brought by a solicitors' firm and a credit hire companies against a defendant County Court: MRH Solicitors & others v Manchester County Court [2015] EWHC 1795 (Admin).

The Divisional Court was asked to review a judgment given by a Recorder at the defendant County Court in a trial arising from a road traffic incident. The defence to that action had alleged that the claim was fraudulent. In the Recorder's judgment he had found the claimant solicitors to have been "elbows deep in fraud" and considered there...

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