CH-2025-000032 - [2025] EWHC 2988 (Ch)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

APPEALS LIST (ChD)

ON APPEAL FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT CENTRAL LONDON

(Mr Recorder Kelly KC, Order of 24 January 2025)

Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building

Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL

Before :

HH JUDGE DAVIS-WHITE KC

(sitting as a Judge of the Chancery Division)

Between :

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Mr Joseph Steadman (instructed by M&G plc) for the Appellant

Mr Saad Karim (instructed under the Direct Access Scheme) for the Respondent

Hearing dates: 15 October 2025 (and further submissions in writing on consequential order 12 November 2025)

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 13 November 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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HH JUDGE DAVIS-WHITE KC

Judge Davis-White KC :