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Sean McGuiness

Sean McGuiness is a senior associate in DLA Piper’s Litigation & Regulatory group. Email: sean.mcguiness@dlapiper.com

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

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.

1 FEB 2021