DEENY v. WALKER AND OTHERS SAME v. LITTLEJOHN & CO. AND OTHERS

[1996] LRLR 276

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Mr. Justice GATEHOUSE:

Reinsurance - Lloyd’s litigation - Practice - Application to strike out - Negligence - Effective cause of losses - Plaintiffs alleged that brokers’ and auditors’ defaults effective causes of Names pure underwriting losses - Whether conduct complained of was effective or dominant cause of plaintiffs’ loss - Whether pleadings should be struck out.