Recent reports show how our approach to civil justice is being shaped by the current age of austerity. Continue reading
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REUTERS | Paul Hackett
It is widely known that litigation can be prohibitively expensive, and this has become even more of an issue with recent legal aid cuts and increases in court fees. As a result, parties are turning to alternative sources of funding. No, I don’t mean DBAs. I’m talking about crowdfunding. Continue reading
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June 9, 2015
Access to Justice Reform: the Master of the Rolls
Introduction
On 15 May 2015, Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, gave a speech in Jersey entitled “The English Experience of Access to Justice Reform”. The focus of the speech was the Jackson reforms, set in the context of the Woolf reforms of the late 1990s, Sir Richard Aikens’ 2007 Long-Trials Review, and the more recent Chancery Modernisation Review undertaken by Lord Justice Briggs. Continue reading