Goldstein v. Wickett

The appellate courts of this State have often had occasion to condemn the tardiness of some attorneys in furnishing bills of particulars in response to demand. Such tardiness demonstrably hurts the administration of justice in this State. The failure to serve a bill of particulars, which might have been prepared in minutes, may seriously delay the trial of an action on the merits. The workday of overburdened trial judges must then be consumed by motions to preclude and motions to vacate preclusion orders, and if, as often occurs, the latter are ignored or lightly regarded, then the solemn…