Bates v Post Office Ltd

Subject Matter

PRACTICE — Case management — Listing of hearings — Group litigation — Counsel seeking to adjourn hearings in group litigation to avoid conflict with other trial commitments — Whether adjournment contrary to overriding objective — Whether adjournment to be granted — CPR rr 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, Practice Direction 19B

[2017] EWHC 2844 (QB); [2017] 4 WLR 221; [2017] WLR(D) 804, QBD