LSLA president welcomes new dawn for disclosure

A two-year disclosure pilot scheme which will introduce a new set of disclosure rules in the Business and Property Courts has been welcomed by Julian Acratopulo, president of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA). Under the new regime, ‘Disclosure Duties’ will bind the parties, including the duty not to inundate the other side with a host of irrelevant documents. Acratopulo, pictured, says the reforms will introduce ‘greater flexibility’ to the process. Writing in this week’s issue, Acratopulo says that for the pilot scheme to work, practitioners must embrace the opportunity to approach disclosure differently. He adds that the prospect of increasing competition from overseas partly in response to Brexit serves to ‘put a premium on the pace of change’.