Dispute Resolution

  • Increase in Value of Fast Track Claims

    When the Civil Procedure Rules came into force on 26th April 1999 they provided for three different “tracks”, as they were known, to which the Courts would allocate  claims.  Choice of track depended, in the main, on the...

  • Less than eight months for solicitors to wear wigs

    Traditionally solicitors who are entitled to appear before Judges in any of the Courts in England & Wales were not entitled to wear wigs nor a similar gown as barristers so as to distinguish the two branches of the profession from each other. This often...

  • Pre - Action Conduct - Change to the General Protocol

    When the Civil Procedure Rules came into force on 26th April 1999 one of their objects was to encourage the parties to communicate and co-operate more comprehensively with each other in advance of any claim being issued in the Courts, and thereby save legal...

  • Summary assessment of costs - change on hourly rates

    Since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in April 1999 the Courts have been encouraged where appropriate to assess the costs payable by one party to another following the end of a hearing summarily, rather than incur the increased costs and delay...
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