The orders a court can make between issue and trial — from procedural housekeeping to remedies powerful enough to end a claim before it ever reaches a judge.
Few claims reach trial untouched: most are shaped, narrowed or finished altogether by applications made along the way. This chapter starts with the framework common to all interim applications — the application notice, service requirements and how the court deals with them — before turning to without-notice applications and the strict duty of full and frank disclosure they carry. It then works through extensions of time and the three-stage test for relief from sanctions, strike out and summary judgment as routes to early disposal, and the heavyweight remedies of interim injunctions, freezing injunctions and search orders. It closes with interim payments and security for costs, and the costs orders that follow an interim hearing.
