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Operative and material? Ten years later: setting aside a judgment for fraud

13 June 2024 / Author(s): Jamie Curle , Sean McGuiness
Issue: February 2021 / Categories: In Practice
Company: DLA Piper

In Balber Kaur Takhar v Gracefield Developments,1 Steven Gasztowicz QC, sitting in the High Court as a deputy High Court judge, set aside a judgment issued ten years earlier on the basis it had been procured by fraud. The court considered the correct test to apply when setting aside a judgment for fraud – which ultimately turns on whether the fraud is operative and material.

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