A Case of Interest: Part 36 offer not valid if it "excludes interest"
08/01/20The case involved the claimant making a Part 36 offer of £50,000 but stated that "The offer relates to the whole of the claim for costs within the Bill and takes into account any counterclaim, but excludes interest"
In very brief summary, it was held that such an offer did not comply with CPR 36.5(4) and that "Part 36 proceeds on the basis that interest in ancillary to a claim, not a severable part of it...Interest cannot be hived off"