A ‘without prejudice’ label in email subject is not magic paint for the whole thread

Cyber Desk · Insight. Series: Digital disputes, as Indian courts actually see them.

A ‘without prejudice’ label in email subject is not magic paint for the whole thread.

A settlement chain is filed in full because someone put “Without Prejudice” in the subject once. Labels matter when the communication is genuinely aimed at settlement — they do not automatically cloak every earlier or later message that happens to sit in the same thread. Courts look at purpose and content, not stationery. Subject-line paint is a claim, not a cloak.

Without prejudice in the subject.

Not magic for the whole thread.