Supercases

At a recent symposium Sir Richard Aikens, chairman of the Judicial Working Party on ‘supercases’, confirmed that, contrary to the views of many City litigators, the list of issues required to be settled at the first case-management conference does not take legal precedence over the full pleadings. It is a practical document with its sole purpose being to guide the parties and the judge. Sir Richard continued:‘Some people seem to have misunderstood this. It is not the intention that you should scrabble to fit in all the issues because you think that if you don’t get them in the list of issues, you can’t plead them in court.’