[2025] EWHC 1663 (Comm)

Claim No. CL-2022-000384

The Rolls Building

7 Rolls Buildings

Fetter Lane

London EC4A 1NL

Before:

HIS HONOUR JUDGE MARK PELLING KC

(sitting as a Judge of the High Court)

Between:

MR. TOM STEWART COATS (instructed by Norton Rose Fulbright LLP) appeared forthe Claimant.

MS. ERIN HITCHENS (instructed by Stephenson Harwood LLP) appeared for the Defendant.

Approved Judgment

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