CA-2024-001533 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1369

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

Mrs Justice Stacey

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

LORD JUSTICE NUGEE

LORD JUSTICE SNOWDEN
and

LORD JUSTICE JEREMY BAKER

Between :

- and -

LESLIE WILLCOCKS

Interested Party

Sonia Tolaney KC and Joshua Crow (instructed by Trowers & Hamlins LLP) for the Appellant

Stephen Kosmin (instructed by Financial Ombudsman Service Limited) for the Respondent

The Interested Party did not appear and was not represented

Hearing date : 15 July 2025

Further written submissions : 17 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 29 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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