Global Claim
A claim that attributes a total loss to a group of events without demonstrating causation between each individual event and each part of the loss. Courts and tribunals dislike them, and they frequently fail.
The objection is not procedural fussiness. A global claim asks a tribunal to accept that everything that went wrong was the other side’s fault, without proving it event by event — which means that if any material part of the loss was in fact the claimant’s own doing, the whole claim is contaminated and there is no principled way to salvage part of it.
They are usually a symptom rather than a strategy: a contractor makes a global claim because it did not keep records good enough to make a particularised one. The remedy is upstream, at the point where daily records, allocated hours and quantity data were either captured or were not.
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