David Rose
Active member
Just as I was getting all excited about the CROW case hearing set for July 21 - my birthday - we?ve just had a letter from the Welsh Government asking to postpone it because their barrister is unavailable that day.
The court has to agree, but it?s unlikely to object, especially since the WG still hasn?t provided full disclosure, and has indicated it cannot submit a defence until July 12. After that we would be entitled to ask for disclosure, and to respond on paper to their arguments, but of course there would hardly be any time then with the original court date.
Anyhow, it?s now unlikely to happen until at least September.
You will be familiar with Charles Dickens?s famous section on Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in Bleak House:
?Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.?
Well. It is what it is.
The court has to agree, but it?s unlikely to object, especially since the WG still hasn?t provided full disclosure, and has indicated it cannot submit a defence until July 12. After that we would be entitled to ask for disclosure, and to respond on paper to their arguments, but of course there would hardly be any time then with the original court date.
Anyhow, it?s now unlikely to happen until at least September.
You will be familiar with Charles Dickens?s famous section on Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in Bleak House:
?Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.?
Well. It is what it is.
