(Re)insurance Weekly Update 33- 2016

Planetree Nominees v Howard Kennedy LLP: Whether dissolved partnership had been validly served with claim form and whether solicitors must confirm if authorised to accept service

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2016/2302.html

The defendant firm of solicitors had (in common with many firms) ceased trading as a partnership and transferred its practice to an LLP (after the cause of action against it had accrued) and the LLP subsequently moved address. However, the claimant mistakenly served the claim form on the LLP at its new address. Prior to this, it had asked the defendant's solicitors whether they were authorised to accept service of the claim form, but no response to that communication was received.