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Security for costs unless order (Holt v Caterpillar)

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Published on: 18 February 2014
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DR analysis: the Commercial Court has ordered that, unless the security for costs previously ordered be provided within the extended deadline, the claimants’ claim be struck out. In doing so, it set a realistic and workable (extended) deadline in which the security was to be provided.

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