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United Kingdom setting aside judgmentfraudabuse of process

Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd

[2019] UKSC 13
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtUK Supreme Court
Year2019
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Fraud unravels all. A judgment obtained by fraud can be set aside without showing the fraud could not have been discovered with reasonable diligence at the time of the original trial.

Area of Law

procedure

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