The pursuers’ Answers were lodged 13 June 2012 exposing a number of contradictions to their previous submissions to the court. Pursuers’ Answers At paragraph [10] of their Answers the pursuers assert that our submission on the application of the doctrine of settled accounts is unintelligible. The doctrine of settled accounts simply means that when an [...]
At the instruction of the court, on the 6th June 2012, the defenders lodged a draft Note of Argument and supporting documentation (Appendix III Volumes I-X). The final form of our Note is due to be lodged one week after the pursuers lodge their Answers to the draft form of the Note (which will be [...]
We lodged our Grounds of Appeal document on Tuesday 10th May. I would ask the reader to note that our Grounds rely on Solicitors (Scotland) Accounts Rules, HMRC VAT Regulations, the Civil Evidence (Scotland) Act, the legal authority Begg on Law Agents and the European Convention on Human Rights Article 6 ‘ Defenders’ Grounds [...]
Lord Woolman issued his judgement in causa Tods Murray LLP. v. Arakin Limited on 14 February 2012. After 16 years of litigation, and many many hours of court time, Lord Woolman was able to issue an opinion that runs to a grand total of 21 paragraphs (or six sheets of double spaced A4). His recent opinion cites [...]