The court struck out a claim form and particulars that were
"hopelessly vague and uninformative" and stressed that
extensions of time must not go through "on the nod"
This High Court decision illustrates the danger of failing to
particularise claims properly and seeking extensions of time
without proper justification. Here, the failure to clearly
state the claim resulted in it being struck out and summary
judgement given in the defendants' favour. Separately,
the Court emphasised the importance of making a sound case for
applications for extensions of time.
The claimant, Mr Mehdi Khosravi, alleged that some of the
defendants (the Al Aqili defendants) were prepared to use violence
to achieve their goal and implied that the defendant BAT companies
were prepared to sanction this. His central claim was that
the Al Aqili defendants had been involved in a serious assault upon
him (with the aim of closing an official inquiry into the smuggling
of cigarettes into Iran)
