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NGM Sustainable Developments Ltd v Wallis

NGM Sustainable Developments Ltd v Wallis & Ors [2015] EWHC 2089 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division
Year2015
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Allegations of fraud (including fraudulent misrepresentation) must be distinctly and particularly pleaded and strictly proved on cogent evidence; a claimant who fails to plead and establish the fraud with the requisite particularity cannot succeed, and a court will not find fraud on the basis of inadequately pleaded or inferential material.

Area of Law

General

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