QB-2022-001397 - [2025] EWHC 2193 (KB)

On 3 March 2025, the Claimant filed an application to re-amend the Amended Reply. I heard the application on the first day of the trial, 5 March 2025. I refused the application save to the extent that I gave the Claimant permission to re-amend paragraph 94 of the Amended Reply to add the words: “The investigation was inadequate and unfair, especially given the complete lack of critical scrutiny of evidently hostile sources”. I gave my decision on 5 March and provided my reasons in a draft judgment circulated to the parties the following morning, and formally handed down on 7 March: [2025] EWHC 517 (KB).