Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 9 October 1984.
1. The matter upon which I have not to rule is whether it is open to the plaintiffs on their pleading to make two assertions of negligence against the defendant solicitors in the context of the Herald Luxim Contracts. What is wished to be said arises at two points in time; the first is on or before the 17th February, and the second is after the market collapsed. The market peaked on the 9th March, and so the allegations would bite at some time after that day. What is sought to be said is this: "