| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [1998] All ER (D) 725 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Lord Bingham CJ, Morritt and Waller LJJ |
| Representation | Rupert Jackson QC, Norman Wright and Sian Mirchandani (instructed by Weightmans, Liverpool) for Arthur J S Hall & Co. |
| Andrew Edis QC (instructed by Hill Dickinson Davis Campbell, Liverpool) for Mr Simons. | |
| Martin Pointer QC and Stephen Trowell (instructed by Cooper Whiteman) for Mr Barratt. | |
| Lord Meston QC and Rupert Jackson QC (instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain) for Woolf Seddon. | |
| Mr Cockbone appeared in person. | |
| Rupert Jackson QC and Christopher Critchlow (instructed by Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave, Leeds) for Atkinson Dacre & Slack. | |
| Peter Duckworth and Nicholas Bowen (instructed by Stephens & Scown, Exeter) for Mr Harris. | |
| Rupert Jackson QC and Jeffrey Bacon (instructed by Bond Pearce, Exeter) for Scholfield Roberts & Hill. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 14 December 1998 |
Catchwords
Lawyer - Negligence - Immunity - Whether immunity for negligent acts and omissions taking place outside court - Whether immunity where court approved a consent order - Whether claim for damages against a lawyer for alleged negligence leading to making of consent order an abuse of the process.
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