Interim Payments: Room for rent

Deidre Goodwin analyses Eeles applications and the case for reviewing Roberts v Johnstone ‘The leit motif running through reported Eeles and trial decisions is that Roberts v Johnstone [1989] is an imperfect solution.’Has the time come to reconsider the validity of the apparently immutable Roberts v Johnstone [1989] principle in order to provide a fairer …
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Interim Payments: Continue to advance with caution

Dr Jock Mackenzie and Richard Lodge have another look at the Eeles principles ‘Difficulties remain in obtaining interim payments large enough to fund the purchase and adaptation of a suitable property prior to trial.’ In our article ‘Advance with caution’, PILJ88, September 2010, p2 (not available online), we concluded that at interim payment applications, the …
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