When you look back on it, some of the things the CMA have been doing since june is bizzare really.
First case management hearing they send someone who was on the case for only a few days. Now this isn't a big deal, but we learn later that person was also going to play a big part in the actual trial, and this same lawyer asks for a trial date in October but doesn't really argue that hard for it in the first hearing.
So this person needed time to onboard. So instead of making a application to get the trial pushed back before the second case management hearing, they wait weeks after the second hearing....
The CAT made it clear the second hearing is when the trial date is finalized, so their application to push the trial back understandably got rejected. Self inflicted really.
And remember that application to push the trial back was only made 2 weeks ago. So 2 weeks ago they where still ready to fight this appeal. And now all of a sudden a magic remedy comes along and they are back to negotiating?
Shit is hilarious.
First case management hearing they send someone who was on the case for only a few days. Now this isn't a big deal, but we learn later that person was also going to play a big part in the actual trial, and this same lawyer asks for a trial date in October but doesn't really argue that hard for it in the first hearing.
So this person needed time to onboard. So instead of making a application to get the trial pushed back before the second case management hearing, they wait weeks after the second hearing....
The CAT made it clear the second hearing is when the trial date is finalized, so their application to push the trial back understandably got rejected. Self inflicted really.
And remember that application to push the trial back was only made 2 weeks ago. So 2 weeks ago they where still ready to fight this appeal. And now all of a sudden a magic remedy comes along and they are back to negotiating?
Shit is hilarious.