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The High Court held Halozyme’s draft infringement pleading was too thin, requiring a compliant statement of case and best endeavours to provide an Alt-B4 sample.
Clark v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police [2023] EWHC 2565 (KB) (16 October 2023)
High Court appeal over police use of force and detention in custody. The court upheld most findings, but found one later detention decision unlawful and awarded nominal damages.
Smith v Baker [2021] EWHC 348 (QB) (18 February 2021)
The High Court struck out most of an amended defamation defence and parts of a counterclaim, but allowed the dispute to continue on serious harm, meaning, and remaining harassment issues.
The High Court rejected an abuse of process challenge to a truth defence in a defamation claim and ordered the claimant to plead a fuller reply.
Spicer v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2020] EWHC 1778 (QB) (06 July 2020)
The High Court rejected a strike-out bid against a police truth defence in defamation, holding it was not an abuse of process despite the claimant’s earlier criminal acquittal.
Ukegheson v London Borough of Haringey (Rev 1) [2017] EWCA Civ 1140 (27 July 2017)
The Court of Appeal dismissed an employment discrimination appeal, holding that the pleaded case did not allege a failure to make reasonable adjustments and that the excluded claims had no real prospect of success.
Strike-out application in a libel case: the court held the corporate claimants had sufficiently pleaded trading reputation, but struck out irrelevant background paragraphs.
Hearne v Secretary of State & Ors [2008] EWHC 1270 (QB) (29 April 2008)
The High Court refused permission to appeal in five related claims by Christopher Hearne, upheld strike-out orders, and imposed a two-year extended civil restraint order.
The Patents Court ordered limited further disclosure in a patent invalidity dispute and barred the fifth defendant from adducing evidence on the counterclaim.
Dunn v Glass Systems (UK) Ltd [2007] EWHC B2 (QB) (11 July 2007)
The High Court struck out a barrister’s 221-page particulars of claim as prolix, unintelligible and abusive, and also rejected claims for ongoing fees and costs as damages.
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