MANCHESTER COUNTY COURT PROTOCOL TO BE FOLLOWED WHEN PROCESSING ALL QB CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE/PERSONAL INJURY CASES AND COUNTY COURT CASE WITH A STATED VALUE OVER 200k
Single Point of contacts on each team:
Jordan Gregory- Admin Court Manager
Finlay-Jade Mulready- QB Listing
Paul Greenhalgh- QB Issue/Corres
Warwick Smith- QB Orders
All QB clinical negligence and personal injury cases will be allocated on issue to one of the six Specialist District Judges: –
District Judge Hovington
District Judge Moss
District Judge Bever
District Judge Hassall
District Judge Stonier
District Judge Davies
Upon receipt the issue team will allocate these cases pro rata following the instructions on the spreadsheet located on the shared drive in the folder called ‘Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury’.
After issue, the claim forms will be stamped and endorsed with the name of the allocated judge. All CN/PI claims will be identifiable as they will be placed in an orange folder and the name of the allocated judge will be endorsed on the front of the court file.
Upon receipt of a defence or application the administration will refer the process together with the court file as priority exparte to the allocated judge.
It has been agreed that the allocation Judges (DQ’s) will identify any County Court personal injury cases which have a value over 200k and all clinical negligence cases. These cases will be returned to the office and expediated to the issue team who will process and treat these claims as new issue, allocating to a specialist judge, entered onto the spreadsheet, orange file and referred to that judge for directions.
We have identified two SPOC’s on each team who will be responsible for ensuring that this work is processed correctly and in accordance with the protocol.
The SPOCs are: –
Jordan Gregory Admin Court Manager 0161 240 5997
Finlay-Jade Mulready QB Listing 0161 240 5310
Paul Greenhalgh QB Issue/ Corres 0161 240 5223
Warwick Smith Orders team 0161 240 5020
The QB email address has been restored ([email protected])- the QB SPOC’s and the Delivery Managers will have access to this. Parties will be given the Judge’s email address, so that they can directly correspond with the relevant Judge. The Judges will be asked to copy in the QB inbox to all correspondence to ensure we can capture any fees etc.