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Practice: Joint tortfeasors – avoiding the trap for the unwary
Geraldine Elliott and Nigel Brook guide claimants through the tortious jungle ‘The surveyors were joint tortfeasors with the council and authority, meaning the settlement agreement released Gladman’s cause of action against all of them.’ In Gladman Commercial Properties v Fisher Hargreaves Proctor [2013] the claimant had entered into a settlement agreement with one of several …
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- Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc & ors [2007] EWCA Civ 1260
- Bryanston Finance Ltd v de Vries [1975] QB 703
- Gladman Commercial Properties v Fisher Hargreaves Proctor & ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1466
- Henderson v Henderson (1843) 3 Hare 100
- Watts v Aldington [1999] L&TR 578