AB and others v John Wyeth and Brother; Re: Benzodiazepine Litigation

(1996) 7 Med LR 267

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice Ian KENNEDY

Practice — Group litigation — Benzodiazepine litigation — Withdrawal of legal aid by Legal Aid Board — Whether remaining actions by non-legally aided plaintiffs should be struck out on grounds that they were an abuse of process, frivolous, vexatious or otherwise bound to fail — Whether there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay such as to make fair trial impossible