Recorded Webinar: Drafting Pleadings and Particulars to Avoid Unnecessary Interlocutory Applications

Ensuring correct pleadings and particulars are fundamental to a practitioner’s skillset. How well this is done will forestall and hopefully prevent interlocutory proceedings later on. This session looks at the key issues, including:

• Drafting pleadings and particulars - understanding correct form and content

• Ensuring sufficient detail on cause of action

• Pleading errors:

  • pleading conclusions

  • correct structure and use of subheadings

  • admitting allegations not pleaded

  • use of phrases - ‘ all material times’ and ‘all material times’

  • pleading documents

• Handling request for further and better particulars

• Dealing with interlocutory proceedings over adequacy of pleadings

• Applications for summary dismissal based on inadequate proceedings

• Application to strike out pleadings - how to respond

• Case report - Creighton v Australian Executor Trustees Ltd [2017] NSWSC 1406