{"product_id":"vragen-1712-geachte-heer-mevrouw-moeten-wij-akkoord-gaan-met-een-uitstel-van-een-zitting-in-het-hooggerechtsh","title":"Postponement of Supreme Court hearing: should you cooperate?","description":"\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n Ir\/Madam,\n\n Should we agree to a postponement of a Supreme Court hearing scheduled for tomorrow because the opposing lawyer is in hospital?\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e \nThat is not necessary. However, if the opposing party's lawyer is indeed in hospital, it is customary to cooperate in a postponement. If only to obtain a postponement from the opposing party in the opposite case, if your lawyer were unavailable at an important moment due to force majeure.\n\n If you do not wish to cooperate, there is a good chance that if the office of the opposing party's lawyer requests a postponement due to 'pressing circumstances' (hospitalisation), the Court will simply grant a postponement. By refusing to cooperate with a postponement, you will probably not achieve much, at most a great deal of annoyance with the presiding judge (who decides on the postponement) about your attitude, which he (given the hospitalisation of the opposing party's lawyer) will probably experience as unreasonable.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e \nYou are not obliged to cooperate, but the Court can grant the postponement anyway. Refusing does have the effect that the other side can act very childishly if your lawyer needs a postponement. That is why it is also in your interest not to be too difficult about this.\n\n Only if games are being played and it concerns a trick would I, together with your lawyer, consider refusing to cooperate.\n\n","brand":"Rechtswinkel.nl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55018342515037,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rechtswinkel.nl\/en\/products\/vragen-1712-geachte-heer-mevrouw-moeten-wij-akkoord-gaan-met-een-uitstel-van-een-zitting-in-het-hooggerechtsh","provider":"Rechtswinkel.nl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}