pre-trial review

Application for leave is usually made at the pre-trial review.

It may well be that the district judge will direct a further pre-trial review for all parties.

If directions have already been given on pre-trial review, this appointment is not needed.

The widespread adoption of a rigorous and effective pre-trial review?

This can be corrected at the pre-trial review or preliminary arbitration hearing.

On the pre-trial review the district judge must consider the course of the proceedings and give all necessary or desirable directions.

The case will then proceed to pre-trial review.

They were remanded on unconditional bail until June 24 for a pre-trial review.

He presided over a pre-trial review when it was decided not to go ahead with a case against a babysitter accused of assaulting seven children.

As soon as practicable after the pre-trial review, a date for trial is fixed, if a hearing is necessary.

A district judge arbitrator shall have the same powers on the preliminary appointment as under Ord 17 on a pre-trial review.

A pre-trial review should rarely be necessary in most personal injury claims in view of the automatic directions in Ord 17, r 10 (see above).

Mrs Hill told a pre-trial review hearing in Reading, Berks: "I was the head gardener.

The procedure is similar where the plaintiff does not accept the part only admission, when a date is fixed for pre-trial review (Ord 9, r 3(6)).

The court then fixes a pre-trial review, giving notice to the plaintiff and defendant and endorsing notice thereof on the third party notice.

The plaintiff or defendant may, at the pre-trial review, ask for any necessary interlocutory order or any other direction or may request arbitration rather than trial.

Where automatic directions do not apply or the court proposes to give other directions, and the court directs a pre-trial review Ord 17, rr 1-9 apply.

Further, the notice to the parties in relation to the pre-trial review indicates that the hearing is informal and in private and that 'its purpose is to:

However, it should rarely be necessary to apply to the court for directions before the pre-trial review or preliminary arbitration appointment (Ord 19, r 5; Term No 2).

As already mentioned, the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her.

Applebey concluded that, whilst useful to lawyers, the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case.

As soon as practicable after the pre-trial review, if the action or matter still remains to be heard, the court fixes a date for hearing and gives notice to all parties (Ord 17, r 9).

Furthermore, if the originating process is served late, the court may allow the hearing or pre-trial review to proceed even in the defendant's absence, or it may adjourn the hearing (Ord 7, r 16).

There is no standard procedure for Pre-Trial Directions in the Multi Track, and the judge has discretion to use a number of case management approaches, including case management conferences and pre-trial reviews.

As well as the procedure of giving directions on the pre-trial review, the court may on the application on notice of any party, or of its own motion, give directions at any time (Ord 13, r 2).