System Care ( Uk) Ltd v Services Design Small Works Ltd

[2011] EWCA Civ 723

Case details

Case citations
[2011] EWCA Civ 723
Court
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judgment date
11 May 2011
Judgment text

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Subjects
Civil procedure Costs
Keywords
appeal dismissed appeal costs standard basis payment on account detailed assessment
Outcome
appeal dismissed
Judicial consideration

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Summary

The appeal was dismissed. The supplied text does not reproduce the written judgments containing the court’s reasons, so no substantive legal principle or ratio can safely be extracted.

Factual background

System Care (UK) Limited appealed from a decision of Huddersfield County Court before Recorder Phillips. The supplied judgment records the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the appeal but does not identify the underlying dispute, the lower court’s decision, or the issues argued.

The central question cannot be determined from the supplied text.

Held

  1. Disposition: The appeal was dismissed. Lord Justice Lloyd stated that the reasons were set out in written judgments available to the parties and generally available, but those reasons are not included in the supplied text.
  2. Costs: By agreement, the appellant was ordered to pay the respondent’s costs of the appeal on the standard basis, subject to detailed assessment if not agreed.
  3. Payment on account: The appellant was ordered to pay £5,000 on account of those costs by 4.30 pm on 25 May.

The court’s approach to earlier authorities

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Appellate history

  1. Court of Appeal (Civil Division): In [2011] EWCA Civ 723, the appeal from Huddersfield County Court was dismissed.

Lower court decision

Judgment appealed:
Not stated in the judgment
Outcome:
appeal dismissed

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