{"id":835,"date":"2024-05-03T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1215.london\/?p=835"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:57:40","slug":"the-price-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/the-price-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=1215Law\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>Hot from the bench of the Court of Appeal is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2024\/428.html\">Northamber PLC v Genee World Ltd &amp; Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 428<\/a> a breach of exclusivity agreement\/ inducing breach of contract case that has a interesting sidebar on mediation\/costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ignoring an offer to mediate can be expensive<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brick-Wall.jpg\" alt=\"A Brick Wall\" class=\"wp-image-205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brick-Wall.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brick-Wall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brick-Wall-285x214.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stonewalling is not a good response to an offer to mediate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key points that might interest ADR practitioners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Silence is still not golden (Paragraph 103)&#8230;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Where LJ Arnold (with a withering &#8220;it is almost 20 years since&#8230;.&#8221;) reaffirms the <em>Halsey v Milton Keynes General NHS Trust<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2004\/576.html\">[2004] EWCA Civ 576<\/a>, concept that an unreasonable refusal to mediate is in and of itself unreasonable conduct and the <em>PGF II SA v OMFS 1 Ltd<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2013\/1288.html\">[2013] EWCA Civ 1288<\/a> position that silence in relation to an offer is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a neatly put summary by an eminent judge and just peevish enough to be the basis of my new standard paragraph on why the other side should mediate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&#8230;.and it&#8217;ll cost you (Paragraph 107)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>How much will continue to be case specific but as an approach Arnold LJ felt the &#8220;correct response would be to impose a modest, but not insignificant, costs penalty by increasing &#8230;&#8230;costs recovery by an additional 5% to 75%&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All in all&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a further example of the modern trend of near-compulsory mediation with a example of a broad brush punishment on the costs front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot from the bench of the Court of Appeal is Northamber PLC v Genee World Ltd &amp; Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 428 a breach of exclusivity agreement\/ inducing breach of contract case that has a interesting sidebar on mediation\/costs. 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