A litigator’s predictions for 2015

2015 will see “significant reduction in the number of interim applications for relief” now the Jackson reforms have bedded in, Leigh Callaway, associate at Irwin Mitchell and Junior London Solicitor Litigation Association committee member, forecasts in this week’s NLJ. Litigators can also expect more co-operation between parties, which “had all but disappeared post- Mitchell [the Andrew Mitchell libel trial in which Mitchell’s lawyers were sanctioned for not meeting court deadlines]”. Callaway predicts more e-working, shorter pleading and a growth in third party funding.