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(c)
Other reforms in support
The establishment of an effective court-determined timetable benefits from the support
of other procedural reforms such as those involving pleadings verified by statements
of truth and disclosures accompanying sanctioned offers of settlement, as mentioned
above. The maintenance of timetables and the prevention of their disruption call for
similar support.
Two important sources of potential timetable disruption involve the proliferation of
interlocutory applications and interlocutory appeals. These are dealt with separately
below.
Measures proposed for countering such threats of disruption include suitably
stringent costs orders, involving summary assessment and immediate payment, against
unwarranted or over-prolific interlocutory applications, as well as orders for the
payment of costs by the lawyers personally in suitable cases.
Unwarranted
interlocutory appeals ought to be excluded or much reduced by the introduction of a
leave requirement, coupled with costs sanctions.
Notes
Sections 17 and 22 below.
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