Strict Approach to Sufficient Particularity

Best v Charter Medical of England Ltd ([2001] EWCA Civ 1588 26 October, TLR 19 November)

The claimant’s re-amended particulars of claim in an action for defamation were struck out on the grounds that they were so vague and speculative as to disclose no reasonable cause of action. On appeal the claimant argued that para 2.4 of the Practice Direction to Part 53 of the CPR indicated that the traditional strict approach to pleading with sufficient particularity no longer applied.