ADDITIONAL PARTIES CANNOT BE ADDED IF THERE IS NO CONNECTION TO CURRENT ACTION: THE ABC OF XYZ

In the latest decision in the XYZ case [2014] EWHC 4056 (QB) Mrs Justice Thirlwall DBE rejected an application that the insurers of the defendants be joined into the action.  There was no real connection between the issues in the action and the declarations sought from the proposed new defendants. T...