Practice & procedure

It was wholly inappropriate to seek to use the pre-trial review, unless there was more than adequate time, to tack on important applications which one or other party wished to make. It should be for either party to make any application which it believed it was entitled to, but it was quite wrong, generally, to seek to use the pre-trial review as a vehicle to do that. Practitioners and parties should be encouraged to take out specific applications with specific application times for their applications to be heard and not to try to tack them onto the pre-trial review.