BVC Civil Procedure

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BVC Civil Procedure

• Directions
• Disclosure

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Directions

• Disclosure of documents
• Exchange of witness statements
• Appointment of joint experts
• Will experts give oral or written testimony?
• Exchange of experts reports
• Meetings of experts (CPR 35.12)
• Trial date or trial window
• PD28.9 and timetable at PD 28.3
• Small claims track (PD27.9)
• 28.5.4.(fast track) and 29.7.4 (multi track)

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Directions

• Disclosure of documents ( 4 weeks after
  allocation)
• Exchange of witness statements( 10weeks after
  allocation)
• Appointment of joint experts( 14 weeks after
  allocation)
• Will experts give oral or written testimony? (
  20weeks after allocation)
• Exchange of experts reports( 22 weeks after
  allocation)
• Meetings of experts (CPR 35.12)
• Trial date or trial window ( 30 weeks after
  allocation but no sooner PD28.3.6(2) ) PD
  28.3.12.
• Case management conference - PD29.5

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Disclosure

• disclosure
• inspection
• documents (31.4)

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Disclosure

• Standard disclosure
• Documents on which a party relies and
• 2. Documents which
• Adversely affect his own case
• Adversely affect another partys case or
• Support another partys case and
• 3. Any documents required to be disclosed by a
  relevant practice direction (31.6)
• Board v Thomas Hedley Co. 1951 2 All ER 431

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Disclosure

• control (31.8)
• List 31.10(4)
• Grounds for refusal
• Privilege
• (Waugh v British Railways Board 1979 2All ER
  1169
• Three Rivers District Council v Governor and
  Company of the Bank of England (No.4) 2004 3
  WLR 1274
• Disproportionate
• Public interest immunity

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Disclosure

• Disclosure statement CPR 31.10(5) and (6)
• reasonable search(31.7)
• Forrester v BRB (The Times April 8th 1996)
• P.I Pre-Action Protocol 3.10

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Disclosure

• Specific Disclosure (31.12, PD31.5)
• Other powers (31.16, 31.17,31.18
• Norwich Pharmacal v Customs and Excise
  Commissioners 1974 AC 133
• Continuing duty of disclosure 31.11
• Douglas v Hello Ltd 2003 1 All ER 1087