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The issue was whether a failure to include a full Statement of Truth in a costs budget breached CPR 3.13.
Held: There is nothing in the rules or practice directions which requires any and every failure to comply with the formal requirements for budgets as rendering the budget a ity. Although the absence of a statement of true is not trivial, it is a failure of form rather than substance.
In the present case, the claimant had filed and exchanged a costs budget on time, which was subject to an irregularity subsequently rectified.
