Effect of split trial

Beasley (by Cadell Beasley as litigation friend) v Alexander QBD TLR 2 November

Where a split trial had been ordered, by which liability and damages were to be determined at separate hearings, the prohibition against a judge being informed, before the conclusion of the case, that an offer to settle the proceedings had been made under Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules meant that the court could not be told the position as to the offer and go on to deal with the question of costs at the end of the first part of the split trial.