The Business Law Reports
[2022] Bus LR 1
Queen’s Bench Division
Patisserie Holdings plc (in liquidation) and others v Grant Thornton UK LLP
[2021] EWHC 3022 (Comm)
2021 Nov 10
Moulder J
Practice— Disclosure— Business and Property Courts— Defendant complaining claim insufficiently particularised— Claimants applying for disclosure of documents prior to extended disclosure to enable particularisation— Court having power to order disclosure if necessary to enable party to understand case— Whether application within scope of power— Whether parties’ agreement that documents disclosable in due course allowing court to make early extended disclosure— Whether appropriate to make order pursuant to general case management power or court’s inherent jurisdiction—
CPR
r 3.1(2)(m), PD 51U, paras 5.11, 9.4