In Cheshire Building Society v Dunlop Haywards (DHL) Limited and anor [2008] EWHC 51 (Comm), the judge heard two applications for summary judgment concurrently, in proceedings in which damages in deceit were being claimed.
Steel J found that the claimants in both actions were entitled to summary judgment on their claims in deceit, with damages to be assessed.
Bearing in mind the line of authority which emphasises the need for particular caution in granting summary judgment in cases involving fraud because "experience teaches us that on occasion apparently overwhelming cases of fraud and dishonesty somehow inexplicably disintegrate", this judgment is a rare example of a judge doing so, and it illustrates the kind of circumstances in which it might be possible to obtain such an order
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