FAILING TO TURN UP TO HEARINGS AND SERVING WITNESS STATEMENTS LATE: AN EXAMPLE OF THE DISCRETION BEING EXERCISED: RELIEF GRANTED UPON CONDITION THAT DEFAULTING PARTY PAYS COSTS AND PAYS £25,000 INTO COURT

The question of relief from sanctions after witness statements were served late has been discussed several times on this blog.  The issue was considered by HH Judge Mackie QC  in Carlton Advisers -v- Dorchester Holdings Ltd [2014] EWHC 3341 (Comm). The judgment is short enough to be set out in full....