King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

KB-2023-003302 - [2025] EWHC 1628 (KB)

Fecha: 27-Jun-2025

The pleaded claim

68.

The claim is for breach of contract. In the Particulars of Claim the Claimant seeks orders setting aside the decisions of the Adjudication Panel and the declarations that the Defendant did the following, in breach of an implied term of the contract:

acted unreasonably in concluding that the hug between the Claimant and Client A was sexually motivated.

ii)

acted unfairly and in breach of the rules of natural justice in failing to properly evaluate and attach sufficient weight to the evidence of Dr Wilkinson when determining sanction.

iii)

acted unreasonably in failing to properly evaluate and attach sufficient weight to the evidence of Dr Wilkinson when determining sanction.

iv)

acted unfairly and in breach of the rules of natural justice and/or unreasonably in rejecting Dr Wilkinson's evidence on the grounds that it was for the most part theoretical.

Imposed a sanction which was unreasonable and disproportionate in all the circumstances.

vi)

Made a decision to dismiss the appeal, which was unreasonable in all the circumstances set out above.