Practitioners drafting or enforcing deeds of settlement of representative proceedings should note that a clause providing proof of 'the amount owing' will be 'sufficiently evidenced' by a solicitor's affidavit extends to proof of both the existence and amount of the debt, and that a party to the deed need not have been a party to every group proceeding resolved by the deed in order to enforce it against group members.
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