Robust case management or judicial bias? (M&P Enterprises v Norfolk Square)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of the judgment?
• What was the background?
• What did the court decide?

Article summary

Dispute Resolution analysis: Caroline Shea QC, of Falcon Chambers, examines a Chancery Division decision that a county court judge’s conduct of proceedings brought by the respondent landlord, seeking the termination of the appellant’s tenancy, had not been unfair and would not have led a fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility the judge was biased.