HT-2024-MAN-000040 - [2025] EWHC 594 (TCC)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS & PROPERTY COURTS IN MANCHESTER

TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT (KBD)

Manchester Civil Justice Centre,

1 Bridge Street West, Manchester M60 9DJ

Date handed down: 14 March 2025

Before:

HIS HONOUR JUDGE STEPHEN DAVIES

SITTING AS A JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT

Between:

Simon Hargreaves KC (instructed by Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, Birmingham) for the Claimant

Abdul Jinadu (instructed by Excello Law Limited, Solicitors, Manchester) for the Defendant

Hearing dates: 16-17 December 2024

Draft judgment circulated: 6 March 2025

APPROVED JUDGMENT

Remote hand-down

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10:00am on 14 March 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by email and by release to The National Archives.

I direct that pursuant to CPR PD 39A paragraph 6.1 no official shorthand note shall be taken of this judgment and that copies of this version as handed down may be treated as authentic.

His Honour Judge Stephen Davies