Patisserie Holdings plc v Grant Thornton UK LLP

Subject Matter

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

[2021] EWHC 3022 (Comm); [2022] Bus LR 1; [2021] WLR(D) 573, QBD