The Court granted an extension of time for the plaintiff to serve expert reports from a psychiatrist, pain medicine specialist, and occupational physician, finding that refusal would create real prejudice to the plaintiff where the medical evidence did not address all substantive injuries pleaded. The Court held that where delay was entirely attributable to the solicitor's administrative failures rather than the plaintiff, and the hearing date was unlikely to be jeopardised, the interests of justice favoured granting the extension. Costs were ordered payable forthwith against the plaintiff, with the solicitor undertaking personal liability for those costs.
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