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

KB-2021-000741 - [2025] EWHC 2096 (KB)

Fecha: 06-Ago-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2096 (KB)

Case No: KB-2021-000741

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING'S BENCH DIVISION

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 06/08/2025

Before :

MR JUSTICE FREEDMAN

Between :

(1) STEVEN ELLIS

(2) STEPHEN HAYWARD

(3) WAYNE MONK

(4) KEVIN PATTERSON

(5) ADRIAN ROBINS

(6) JANINE RUSTED

(7) JOHN STUBBINGS

(8) SUSANNA SUMMERS

(9) ROBERT SZATKOWSKI

(10 ADAM CHAPMAN

(11) AMANDA CHERRY

(12) TOMASZ DZIERZANOWSKI

(13) MICHELE GEORGE

(14) PATRICK MACKINTOSH

(15) PAUL MAPLES

(16) JOANNE NEWMAN

(17) HELEN PATMORE

(18) ANDREW TANFIELD

(19) SINEAD THORNTON

(20 CLAIRE FREEMAN

Claimants

- and –

JOHN BENSON LIMITED

Defendant

and

various additional parties against whom the claim is stayed

Mark Stephens (instructed by Aquabridge Law) for the First to Third, Fifth to Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth to TwentiethClaimants

The Fourth, Fourteenth and Seventeenth Claimants were not represented and did not appear

Andrew Butler KC and Annie Higgo (instructed by Holmes & Hills LLP) for the Defendant

Hearing dates: 6, 7, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 March and 3 & 4 April 2025

Further written submissions: 17 and 22 April 2025.

Judgment distributed in draft: 28 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on Wednesday 6 August 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.