Duty of fair presentation: materiality and inducement: criminal charges

Berkshire Assets (West London) Ltd v Axa Insurance UK plc [2021] EWHC 2689 (Comm) is the first reported case on the issues of materiality and inducement under the duty of fair presentation set out in the Insurance Act 2015. The judgment of Lionel Persey QC shows that nothing much has changed from the old law in these contexts.

Berkshire Assets : the facts