Description
The continued failure by counsel to meet TCC deadlines contained in the TCC Guide will be met with a tougher response, and is more likely to lead to adjourned hearings and wasted costs orders. If all parties want to keep the trial date, then an application that is left until the PTR will inevitably be decided against that background; that may mean that relief is refused when in other circumstances it might have been granted. In the TCC, experts' meetings and joint statements should precede the service of their reports to save time, avoid costs and keep focus.
