Claim No: LM-2023-000318 - [2025] EWHC 1098 (Comm)

Royal Courts of Justice

Rolls Building, London, EC4A 1NL

Date Friday 9 May 2025

Before

Philip Marshall KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)

Between:

(1) CLIFFORD STEWART LAY

(2) JACQUELINE SUZANNE LAY

Claimants

-and-

INDEPENDENT VETCARE LIMITED

Defendant

JUDGMENT

Richard Hanke (instructed by DLA Piper UK LLP) for the Defendant

Paul Strelitz and Charlotte Eborall (instructed by Broadfield Law UK LLP) for the Claimant

Hearing dates: 31 March and 1 April 2025

I direct that no official shorthand note shall be taken of this Judgment and that copies of this version as handed down may be treated as authentic.

This judgment has been handed down by the judge remotely by circulation to the parties’ representatives by email and release to Bailii. The date for hand-down is deemed to be 9 May 2025.

PHILIP MARSHALL KC:

Introduction