Streamlining hearings before arbitrator
Writing in Estates Gazette, leading landlord and tenant silk, Jonathan Gaunt QC, of Falcon Chambers, makes a strong case for a procedure whereby, prior to a complex hearing, the parties sit down and agree a carefully structured timetable that they and their advisers will have to observe.
According to the writer: “The trick is to isolate those aspects that the oral hearing can properly illuminate, leaving other matters to be decided upon the basis of the parties’ written representations.”
The article,
Streamlining hearings before arbitrator
Writing in Estates Gazette, leading landlord and tenant silk, Jonathan Gaunt QC, of Falcon Chambers, makes a strong case for a procedure whereby, prior to a complex hearing, the parties sit down and agree a carefully structured timetable that they and their advisers will have to observe.
According to the writer: “The trick is to isolate those aspects that the oral hearing can properly illuminate, leaving other matters to be decided upon the basis of the parties’ written representations.”
The article, Stop the clock Estates Gazette 30 March 2002, p96, provides a useful example of a timetable already successfully used and invites comments. Also invited are accounts of instances where a similar procedure has been adopted.
