Serving information on the Claimant after the date set by the court

[yellowplum]

I just wanted to get an understanding if anything could be done about this....

I have a claim that I raised in dispute against a large company in Jan 2011. This went back and forth for exchange of letters on liability for a while. In the end they told me to jog on...so I issued a claim against them. It was defended and is set to go to court in December.

This claim is for around £300

Two things happened, I had a telephone allocation hearing at which point the judge slightly chastised the solicitor for not engaging in mediation or trying to resolve the issue.

Secondly the Defendant wanted an entire day to hear the claim, judge wasn't best pleased and gave him 90 mins, and stated that the hearing is only to determine whether or not the item in question met the legal requirement (not all the other issues that are being clouded by the Defendant).

An order come through around 10 days later and within that order both sides had to file and serve all documents they wanted to rely on at the hearing, this was set at end of October.

Subsequently today I received another document from the Defendant simply saying:

Please find enclosed supplementary bundle documents which the Defendant intends to rely on at the hearing.

Is this allowed? I don't really want them to be sending documents left right and centre, even though the court set a date.

[leclerc]

Re: Serving information on the Claimant after the date set by the court

Usually they would allow this but I would certainly make the judge aware that you have received their additional bundle at the end of November rather than the end of October.