“See you in court” was an oft-used expression prior to the implementation of the Woolf Reforms which involved the replacement of the Rules of the Supreme Court by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) with effect from 26 April 1999. With the introduction of the CPR, the intention was that there would be no more “firing off a writ and seeing what happens”. On the contrary, prospective litigants were to make every effort to settle their differences via pre-action protocols with the intention of avoiding court altogether.
