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See also Part 26
PRACTICE DIRECTION 26 – CASE MANAGEMENT – PRELIMINARY STAGE: ALLOCATION AND RE-ALLOCATION This Practice Direction supplements CPR Part 26
Thedirections questionnaire
(1) The parties parties must consult one another and co-operate in completing the allocation questionnaires and giving other information to the court.
Where a court hearing takes place (for example on an application for an interim injunction or for summary judgment under Part 24) before the claim is allocated to a track, the court may at that hearing:
(1) dispense with the need for the parties to file directions questionnaires, treat the hearing as an directions hearing, make an order for allocation and give directions for case management, or
(1) Parties must comply with the notice served under rule 26.3(1) by the date specified in it. Rules 26.3(7A), which concerns designated money claims, and 26.3(8), which concerns claims other than designated money claims, apply where a party is in default.
(2) A party's statement of case may be struck out under rule 26.3(7A)(b).
Any party may apply for a stay to be lifted.
The Civil Procedure Rules lay down the overriding objective, the powers and duties of the court and the factors to which it must have regard in exercising them. The court will expect to exercise its powers as far as possible in co-operation with the parties and their legal representatives so as to deal with the case justly in accordance with that objective.
The practice directions supplementing Parts 27, 28 and 29 contain further information about the giving of case management directions at the allocation stage.
Part of the court’s duty of active case management is the summary disposal of issues which do not need full investigation and trial (rule 1.4(2)(c)),
The court’s powers to make orders to dispose of issues in that way include:
Where the court decides at the hearing of an application or a hearing fixed under paragraph 5.4(2)(a) that the claim (or part of the claim) is to continue it may:
The court will only hold an allocation hearing on its own initiative if it considers that it is necessary to do so.
Where the court orders an allocation hearing to take place:
Where the court may treat another hearing as an allocation hearing it does not need to give notice to any party that it proposes to do so.
The notice of allocation after an allocation hearing will be in Forms N154, N155 or N157.
A legal representative who attends an allocation hearing should, if possible, be the person responsible for the case and must in any event be familiar with the case, be able to provide the court with the information it is likely to need to take its decisions about allocation and case management, and have sufficient authority to deal with any issues that are likely to arise.
The object of this paragraph is to explain what will be the court’s general approach to some of the matters set out in rule 26.8.
In deciding, for the purposes of rule 26.8(2), whether an amount is in dispute the court will apply the following general principles:
It follows from these provisions that if, in relation to a claim the value of which is above the small claims track limit of £10,000, the defendant makes, before allocation, an admission that reduces the amount in dispute to a figure below £10,000 (see CPR Part 14), the normal track for the claim will be the small claims track. As to recovery of pre-allocation costs, the claimant can, before allocation, apply for judgment with costs on the amount of the claim that has been admitted (see CPR rule 14.3 but see also paragraph 15.1(3) of the Costs Practice Direction supplementing Parts 43 to 48 under which the court has a discretion to allow pre-allocation costs)..
The court will treat these views as an important factor, but the allocation decision is one for the court, to be taken in the light of all the circumstances, and the court will not be bound by any agreement or common view of the parties.
Where the case involves more than one money claim (for example where there is a Part 20 claim or there is more than one claimant each making separate claims) the court will not generally aggregate the claims. Instead it will generally regard the largest of them as determining the financial value of the claims.
Paragraph 10.2 does not apply–
(1) a claim for possesson of land in the county court or a demotion claim whether in the alternative to a possession claim or under Part 65;
Part 29 of the Rules and Practice Direction 29 set out the procedure to be adopted.
Where there has been a change in the circumstances since an order was made allocating the claim to a track the court may re-allocate the claim. It may do so on application or on its own initiative.
(a) the Costs Practice Direction and in particular to the court's power to make a summary assessment of costs;
(b) rule 44.13(1) which provides that if an order makes no mention of costs, none are payable in respect of the proceedings to which it relates; and
(2) Part 46 (fast track trial costs) will not apply to a case dealt with at a disposal hearing whatever the financial value of the claim. So the costs of a disposal hearing will be in the discretion of the court.
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