Proceedings in front of an administrative body (the Commission) which were subsequently appealed to a court (CFI and ECJ) did not give rise to an issue of estoppel between the investigatee/appellant and the complainant / intervener. The fact that the ‘victim’ of the abuse intervened in the appeal brought by an investigatee to a court did not mean that the victim and investigatee were parties to a lis before a court for the purposes of issue estoppel.
Judges:
Laddie J
Citations:
[1997] ICR 164, [1996] 2 CMLR 601, [1997] EuLR 1
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v Weston and Another ChD 5-Sep-2014
The Secretary of State sought company director disqualification orders against the defendants saying they had been convicted of making false instruments. The Insolvency service had decided against such proceedings, and the Crown Court judge, when . .
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Commercial, European, Litigation Practice
Updated: 02 June 2022; Ref: scu.536467
