Cases

Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS v Asda Stores Ltd

Held

Granting the application and ordering the preliminary issue sought:

(1) The potential costs saving by ruling on meaning as a preliminary issue were substantial. If the ruling went against the Claimant then that would be an end of the case, but even if it did not end the case it would define the parameters of the issue of falsity the cost savings of which could potentially be very substantial;

(2) The fact that CPR Part 53 did not apply to malicious falsehood claims was not a bar to the Court ordering that meaning be tried as a preliminary issue.

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