KA-2025-000017 - [2025] EWHC 2311 (KB)
Fecha: 10-Sep-2025
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On appeal from Costs Judge Brown
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
Mr Justice Dexter Dias
Between :
LOUISE MICHELLE REEVES | Claimant/ Respondent |
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SIMON KEVIN FRAIN (aka SIMON KEVIN REEVES aka BILL REEVES) MARK RYAN MCKINNON | Defendants/ Appellants |
Robert Marven KC (instructed by Stokoe Partnership, Solicitors) for the Claimant/Respondent
Ben Quiney KC (instructed byLLP Solicitors) for the Defendants/Appellants
Hearing dates: 29 July 2025
(Judgment circulated in draft: 22 August 2025
Received back from counsel: 29 August 2025)
JUDGMENT
Remote hand-down: this judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30 am on Wednesday 10 September 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail
and release to the National Archives.
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- THE HON. MR JUSTICE DEXTER DIAS
- Mr Justice Dexter Dias
- I - Introduction
- II - Issues
- III – Background Facts
- IV - Issue 1
- A - Meaning of “payment”
- B - Meaning of “ultimately”
- C - Meaning of “recovered”
- D - Ratio of Candey
- E - Conclusion: Issue 1
- V – Issue 2
- A - Prime question
- B - Zuberi
- Conclusion: Zuberi
- C - Material breach
- D - Severance
- Conclusion: severance
- E - Conclusion: Issue 2
- Conclusions