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St.James Place v Dixon-Nutt

St James's Place Wealth Management Plc v Dixon-Nutt [2023] EWHC 1431 (Comm)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice (King's Bench Division, Commercial Court, Birmingham)
Year2023
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The without prejudice rule attaches only to communications negotiating and seeking to compromise a genuinely disputed liability; it does not extend to a discussion concerned only with how an admitted liability is to be paid, because there is then no extant dispute capable of being compromised.

Area of Law

General

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