Insurance And Reinsurance - Weekly Update - 11 December 2012

Mueller Europe v Central Roofing

Skeleton arguments and electronic disclosure order/access to document in possession of a party's insurers

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/TCC/2012/3417.html

Various issues were considered by Coulson J in this case:

(1) Time to lodge skeleton arguments and counsel's notes in the TCC. The TCC Guide provides that skeleton arguments and notes must be lodged by counsel by 1pm the day before the hearing (for most post-CMC applications) and by 4pm one clear day before the hearing of an application which is going to last more than half a day or for a Pre-Trial Review ("PTR"). Those deadlines were not met in this case and he said that "the continued failure to meet these deadlines will, in the future, be met with a tougher response than hitherto, and is more likely to lead to adjourned hearings and wasted costs orders"