No change in circumstances fatal to delayed application to discharge freezing injunction (Stephens McBride Piercy Taylor v McBride)

Table of contents

• Judgment details
• Practical implications

Article summary

DR analysis: In a judgment dated 16 April 2014, Mrs Justice Slade DBE dismissed the defendant’s delayed application to discharge a freezing injunction, which was obtained without notice, but then continued by consent, with leave to apply reserved to the defendant. In this article we discuss the practical implications of the court’s judgment.