MANCHESTER COUNTY COURT PROTOCOL TO BE FOLLOWED WHEN PROCESSING ALL QB CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE/PERSONAL INJURY CASES AND COUNTY COURT CASE WITH A STATED VALUE OVER 200k

Single Point of contacts on each team:

Jordan Gregory- Admin Court Manager

Finlay-Jade Mulready- QB Listing

Paul Greenhalgh- QB Issue/Corres

Warwick Smith- QB Orders

 

All QB clinical negligence and personal injury cases will be allocated on issue to one of the six Specialist District Judges: –

 

District Judge Hovington

District Judge Moss

District Judge Bever

District Judge Hassall

District Judge Stonier

District Judge Davies

 

Upon receipt the issue team will allocate these cases pro rata following the instructions on the spreadsheet located on the shared drive in the folder called ‘Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury’.

After issue, the claim forms will be stamped and endorsed with the name of the allocated judge. All CN/PI claims will be identifiable as they will be placed in an orange folder and the name of the allocated judge will be endorsed on the front of the court file.

Upon receipt of a defence or application the administration will refer the process together with the court file as priority exparte to the allocated judge.

It has been agreed that the allocation Judges (DQ’s) will identify any County Court personal injury cases which have a value over 200k and all clinical negligence cases. These cases will be returned to the office and expediated to the issue team who will process and treat these claims as new issue, allocating to a specialist judge, entered onto the spreadsheet, orange file and referred to that judge for directions.

We have identified two SPOC’s on each team who will be responsible for ensuring that this work is processed correctly and in accordance with the protocol.

 

The SPOCs are: –

 

Jordan Gregory                          Admin Court Manager 0161 240 5997

Finlay-Jade Mulready               QB Listing 0161 240 5310

Paul Greenhalgh                       QB Issue/ Corres 0161 240 5223

Warwick Smith                       Orders team 0161 240 5020

 

The QB email address has been restored (manchester.qb@Justice.gov.uk)- the QB SPOC’s and the Delivery Managers will have access to this.  Parties will be given the Judge’s email address, so that they can directly correspond with the relevant Judge. The Judges will be asked to copy in the QB inbox to all correspondence to ensure we can capture any fees etc.

 

 

 

By manclaw_admin in News on 14/12/2018