CLAIMANT COMES TO GRIEF BECAUSE OF A WHOLLY SELF-IMPOSED PROBLEM: SUBSTITUTING A DEFENDANT WHEN THE ACTION HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED – LEADS TO MAJOR PROBLEMS

There have been some interesting cases on this site recently relating to the substitution of parties. However none of them are as peculiar as the case we are looking at here - where the claimant's problems were primarily self-inflicted. The claimant was applying to substitute a defendant on the grou...