Draft directions for a rating appeal
| Published date | 21 March 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Lands Chamber (Upper Tribunal) forms |
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[Case number]
THE UPPER TRIBUNAL (LANDS CHAMBER)
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TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007
AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE
VALUATION TRIBUNAL FOR ENGLAND OR WALES
- BETWEEN
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AB |
Appellant |
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CD |
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Respondent |
The Tribunal has considered the parties’ statements of case [and the draft directions agreed between them]
AND ORDERS:
- The appeal is allocated to the Tribunal’s standard procedure
- By [not later than one month] the parties shall provide their dates to avoid for the hearing of the appeal in the period from [a three month window starting not earlier than 2 months after para 9] with a provisional time estimate of [ ] days.[i]
- By not later than [two months after 2][ii] the parties must file and exchange the statements of any witnesses of fact on whose evidence they wish to rely. Each witness statement must include the words “I believe that the facts stated in this witness statement are true” and must be signed by the person making the statement.
- The parties each have permission to rely on the evidence of one expert witness in the discipline of [valuation].
- The parties’ experts shall meet and communicate with each other on a without prejudice basis sufficiently often so that, by not later than [one month after 3], they shall have agreed:
- (a) a list of the issues on which each of them has been asked to provide their opinion
- (b) the relevant details of the appeal hereditament(s) and details of any comparable transactions or assessments on which either of them intends to rely; and
- (d) such other relevant matters as they are able to agree at that stage
- By not later than [one month after 5] the parties must file and exchange the reports their expert witnesses. The...
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