Question 1 of 10

A claimant in a construction dispute is pursuing a claim for £450,000 against a defendant contractor. The claim arose due to losses suffered when a building project was not completed on time. The case has been allocated to the multi-track and the judge has made a direction for standard disclosure by list of documents. One of the documents in the claimant’s file is a draft letter written at the time of the building project by the managing director of the claimant to the defendant. The draft letter states that the completion date for the building project could be pushed back indefinitely to allow the defendant to carry out a proper job. This letter was never sent and the managing director of the claimant wants to know whether she can prevent the other side from seeing it. Will the defendant be entitled to inspect the letter?