Civil court late submission of evidence

[busby1977]

Hi,

I am hoping someone with a bit of legal knowledge can help me.

I have issued a court claim for money owed to our company. We atre due in court a week today and the court ordered that we serve our evidence to each other and the court not later than 14 days before the hearing.

We duly submitted ours at the beginning of last week by recorded delivery, however, we have only received the defendants evidence today, 7 days late.

Is there a process or an application I can make to ask the court to disallow his evidence on the basis of it being late?

[ostell]

Re: Civil court late submission of evidence

You ask that the evidence is disallowed when it actually gets to court because of failure to comply with the courts directions. The failure also puts you at a time disadvantage to investigate the details of the defence.

By the time your write to the court, it gets delivered and someone finally puts in front of a judge it would probably be past the hearing date.