M&C in the news: UPC: ‘A missed opportunity’ as intervention bids in key disclosure case are thrown out

“Indeed, these rules, as now interpreted by the UPC Court of Appeal, are not dissimilar to the requirements in the UK to add a party (an intervener) to national proceedings, “Applications to intervene have failed in the UK in the past when applications have been made purely to enable the intervener to make pleas in law in other proceedings rather than having any actual and direct interest in the outcome of the proceedings in which they are seeking to intervene. “It is likely that the real dispute about transparency and access to documents (as opposed to a satellite dispute about intervention) will arise now either in the context of the Ocado proceedings themselves, or in the Munich and Dutch court proceedings. ”

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