Curing bad service by email—sending is not service (Serbian Orthodox Church—Serbian Patriarchy v Kesar & Co)

Article summary

Dispute Resolution analysis: The court considered a case in which service by email to initiate detailed assessment proceedings was agreed. However, the documents were served on the wrong email address. This was held to be invalid service notwithstanding that there was an automatic and immediate redirect to the correct, agreed, email address. The court also considered the interplay between CPR 3.10 (rectifying procedural errors) and CPR 6.15 and CPR 6.27 (alternative service) Which were unsuccessfully relied on to ‘cure’ the invalid service. Written by Lauren Godfrey, barrister at Hardwicke.