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Get Your House in Order: Pre-Litigation Conduct and Costs Sanctions - Steven Conway, Browne Jacobson

12/12/12. The Court of Appeal has this year fired a shot across the bows with its stark warning in the case of Guntrip v Cheney Coaches Limited [2012] EWCA Civ 392 that the courts had become too tolerant of delays and non-compliance with orders in litigation and with the reminder in Fred Perry v Brands Plaza Trading Limited [2012] EWCA Civ 224 that as of 1 April 2013 CPR 3.9 is likely to be amended so that after that date, litigants who substantially disregard court order or the requirements of the Civil Procedure Rules will receive substantially less indulgence than hereto. But to what extent do the courts have regard to...

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