Mr Justice Phillips, sitting in the Queens Bench Division, declined to grant the claimants’ application to compel the first and second defendants to file and serve their defence prior to the defendants’ challenge to jurisdiction being determined. Mr Justice Phillips found that it would be wrong, where a defendants’ challenge to English jurisdiction remained live, to compel the defendants to serve their defence to a particulars of claim, running to 85 pages and alleging fraud.
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