Civil Litigation · glossary
An order both sides agree that stays a claim and puts the deal in a schedule. The solicitors hold the schedule, and it is not filed at court, so the terms stay private. Either party may come back to the court for judgment if the deal is not kept. Tomlin Order, paragraph 1 · Chapter 10 · see Stay, Mediation
Explained in Chapter 10, Mediation, Settlement and the Tomlin Order, of Civil Litigation.
Even after the parties agree, the claim is still alive at court, with a trial window ahead. So the solicitors ask the court for a Tomlin order. It stops the claim, and the agreed terms go in a schedule that stays private.Read Chapter 10, Mediation, Settlement and the Tomlin Order →
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