One little noticed part of the Jackson reforms was the introduction of a new to CPR 32.2 (3) which gives the court express powers to identify or limit the number of witnesses a party may call. That power has now been considered by Mr Justice Green in Maclennan –v- Morgan Sindall [2013] EWHC 4044 (Q...
This is not new. The court has had the power since Woolf / CPR to “exclude any evidence”