HT-2023-000432 - [2024] EWHC 2575 (TCC)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS

TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT (KBD)

The Rolls Building

Fetter Lane

London EC4A 1NL

Before :

MR ALAN BATES

(sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)

Between :

Mr Carlo Taczalski (instructed by Stephenson Harwood LLP) for the Claimants

Mr James Frampton (instructed by Hawkswell Kilvington Limited) for the Defendant

Hearing date: 27September 2024

Non-confidential (redacted) Judgment

Released for publication on 26^th March 2025

This is a redacted version of the judgment that was handed down, in its original unredacted form, as a confidential judgment at 2:00pm on 10^th October 2024 by circulation to the parties via email. At that time, no version of the judgment was published (see the reasons set out within paragraphs 14 to 19 of the judgment) in circumstances where it appeared that it might be possible to publicly release the original version of the judgment within the next few months. It has subsequently become apparent, however, that significant further time will elapse before the original version of the judgment can be published. I have therefore directed that this redacted version of the judgment be published today, 26 March 2025, by release to the National Archives. This redacted version of the judgment may be cited in any court proceedings in the same way as the original version could have been cited, had it been published.

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MR ALAN BATES

Deputy Judge Alan Bates:

This is a redacted version of the judgment. Text in this version which appears within square brackets and is also underlined is text that has been inserted in replacement for text that appeared in the original version of the judgment.