SURVIVING MITCHELL 5: CAN YOU EVEN AGREE EXTENSIONS OF TIME?

January 22, 2014 · by gexall · in Avoiding negligence claims, Civil Procedure, Disclosure, Expert evidence, Members Content, Relief from sanctions, Witness statements

The earlier post on extensions of time gained a lot of attention and numerous issues were raised at twitter. This is such a fast moving area that a case, reported yesterday, deals with some of the issues raised. I wanted to look at some of the issues raised as these are crucial to the way in which...

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Tags: Avoiding negligence claims, Civil Procedure Rules, CPR 3.9, Mitchell, Practice direction

2 Responses

legalorange · January 23, 2014 at 18:13:03 · →

Really good article – I am pressing my training department to sign up for your upcoming webinar through CLT.
litigationPSL · January 28, 2014 at 00:14:18 · →

What do you think you are to do though if you already agreed an extension in writing (because you thought it was possible!) and then it comes to light this is not acceptable?! Do both parties apply for relief from sanctions? by consent?!