Consumer claims

Chelfact v Chaudhry’s Restaurant Ltd [2019] EWHC 2959 (QB)

It is unusual for consumer claims to reach the higher courts, but in a recent appeal it was held that a judge, in assessing general damages for food poisoning, had made an erroneous estimate by putting the case into the incorrect category in the Judicial College Guidelines. General damages of £10,000 were awarded. The judge had also been mistaken in applying the two-thirds cap for costs of a litigant in person to the amount of the costs claimed, rather than by reference to the costs of a hypothetical legal representative.