KEEP YOUR WITNESS STATEMENTS SHORT AND TO THE POINT: A SHOT ACROSS THE LITIGANTS’ BOWS

In  Avonwick Holdings Ltd v Azitio Holdings & Ors [2019] EWHC 305 (Comm) Mr Justice Andrew Baker refused the defendants' application for an adjournment of a trial date. When doing so he sent a clear message as to the way in which witness statements were to be drafted.   The drafting of voluminou...