Joinder, adjourning trials, case management and the overriding objective (Walsh v Greystone Financial Services Limited)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of the case?
• What was the background?
• What did the court decide?
• Case details

Article summary

Dispute Resolution analysis: A court faced with a choice between giving directions which inconvenience one insured party and which inconvenience three self-funding parties will likely inconvenience the one insured party. The court in this case, on an application to hear three actions at the same time, and recognising the obvious connection between the three proceedings was, however, prepared to adopt active and innovative case management to ensure those proceedings could be determined expeditiously and at proportionate cost without being heard together. Written by Phillip Patterson, barrister at Hardwicke Chambers.