The Court vacated a listed trial date by consent but expressed strong criticism of the plaintiff's solicitors for sending an email to the Court that was incomplete and misleading as to the true state of the proceeding, and for questioning whether a summons was required when the Court had already directed one be filed. O'Meara J emphasised that correspondence to the Court must not be knowingly incomplete, misleading, or calculatedly manipulative, and that parties should not seek to debate procedural steps already directed by the Court. The trial was re-listed for 18 August 2026, with the Court reaffirming that conduct of proceedings must remain firmly in the hands of the Court, not the parties, even where adjournment applications are made by consent.
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