Read the full judgment text of HCPI 001012/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 September 1998.
1. This action has come before me at an interlocutory stage on the basis of two summonses issued by the Defendants seeking a stay of the action until the infant Plaintiff consents (or his mother on his behalf) to examination by a psychiatrist (the subject of one summons) and an orthopaedic consultant (the subject of the other). Quite why it was thought necessary to issue two summonses I do not understand. It has been an unjustified waste of time, cost and paper. The mother of the infant Plaintif