Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group Plc and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Justice Thomas,Lord Justice Wall,Lord Justice Longmore |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 |
| Docket Number | Case No: A1/2007/0228 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Date | 28 November 2007 |
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231 cases
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Football Dataco Ltd and Others v Stan James (Abingdon) Ltd and Others
...to amend then and there, nor to mention the possibility that they may wish to amend to add the claim in the future. Abuse of process and the Aldi 'Guidelines' 93 Mr Hobbs QC alleges that the Claimants' conduct in failing to bring the amended claim to the attention of the Court at least at t......
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The Joint Administrators of Lehman Brothers Holdings Plc ((in Administration)) v LB GP No.1 Ltd ((in Liquidation))
...what she referred to as “the Aldi Stores rule”, after the decision of Thomas LJ (as he then was) in Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group Plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1260, [2008] 1 WLR 748. In that case, although (reversing the judge at first instance) the Court of Appeal concluded that Aldi's decision to ......
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Amanda Stephanie Clutterbuck and Another (Claimants/Appellants) v William Cleghorn (as judicial factor to the estate of Elliot Nichol deceased)
...Amoudi. The failure to do so was, so it was said, contrary to the guidelines and principles laid down by the Court of Appeal in Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 , [2008] 1 WLR 748 . Secondly, the Pont Street Claim and the Oriel Claim amounted to an abusive collateral......
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Prescott Place Freeholder Ltd v Constantin Batin
...principles are those summarised by Clarke LJ in Dexter v Vlieland Boddy [2003] EWCA Civ 14 which were quoted with approval in Aldi Stores v WSP Group Plc [2008] 1 WLR 748: i) Where A has brought an action against B, a later action against B or C may be struck out where the second action i......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Case Law Review
...Control Systems (No.2) (David Thomas QC and Marc Rowlands). Simon Hargreaves Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc [2008] BLR 1 and [2008] 115 Con LR 49 Already reported in BLM, the appellant had secured a judgment against its design and build contractor. It did not pursue claims against the resp......
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Whose Claim Is It Anyway? Henderson Abuse, Unfair Prejudice Petitions And Claims Accruing To A Company
...the possibility of future litigation at the case management stage of the earlier litigation. In Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 (cited at [26]), Thomas LJ mandated that, where parties are faced with the issue of wishing to pursue other proceedings whilst reserving a rig......
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Whose Claim Is It Anyway? Henderson Abuse, Unfair Prejudice Petitions And Claims Accruing To A Company
...the possibility of future litigation at the case management stage of the earlier litigation. In Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 (cited at [26]), Thomas LJ mandated that, where parties are faced with the issue of wishing to pursue other proceedings whilst reserving a rig......
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Table of Cases
...[2002] S.C.C.A. No. 235 .................................................................. 147 Aldi Stores Ltd v WSB Group Plc, [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 ...................................................... 173 Ali v. Associated Newspapers Ltd, [2010] EWHC 100 (QB) ..................................
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Internet Libel Actions Stayed as an Abuse of Process in the UK
...As to the Master’s other concerns, Mr Browne invited my attention to the comments of homas LJ in Aldi Stores Ltd v WSB Group Plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1260 at [24]: I do not see how the mere fact that this action may require a trial and hence take up judicial time (which could have been saved if ......