BL-2021-002235 - [2025] EWHC 1966 (Ch)

On the question whether the court should dispense with personal service of the 2022 order on the respondent, I am in no doubt that it would be right to do so. The respondent has not been prejudiced by the failure to serve it personally. For reasons already given, he was and is well aware of the existence of both the order and the judgment which led to that order, and of the terms of each of them. The application is sensibly made at this stage of the proceedings, on the one hand allowing the respondent if he wishes to explain why he would be prejudiced, and, on the other, not causing the expenditure of extra costs at an earlier stage. I will therefore make the order sought by the applicant dispensing with personal service.