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Part 36 offer

A formal offer to settle under Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which fix what follows if it is accepted or refused. The letter must say it is made under Part 36. Ravensett offered to accept £220,000, and Corledge to pay £100,000. Ravensett’s Part 36 offer, paragraph 2 · Chapter 9 · see Relevant period, Indemnity costs

Explained in Chapter 9, Offers to Settle: Part 36 and Without Prejudice Offers, of Civil Litigation.

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A Part 36 offer is an offer to settle made under these rules, which fix what happens when it is accepted or refused. Those rules apply only if the letter says it is such an offer. Tivershaw sent Ravensett’s offer to Corledge’s solicitors in April, a month before the CCMC.
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