12 December 2025
Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School highlights a turbulent end to 2025 in the civil courts, from the looming appeal in Mazur to judicial frustration with ever-expanding bundles, in his final NLJ 'The insider' column of the year
He notes that CILEX, represented pro bono by Nicholas Bacon KC, has secured permission to appeal Mazur despite neither party challenging the original decision, with Regan urging Sir Geoffrey Vos MR to hear the case for the sake of clarity and rapid judgment.
Regan also spotlights troubling behaviour in Goulden v Milne, where Judge Keyser KC condemned a solicitor’s alleged intimidatory conduct before referring the matter to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Meanwhile, Sir Andrew Ritchie’s ruling in Tom James UK Ltd v Potter revives debates over restraint-of-trade clauses, and the Commercial Court decries a 20,000-page bundle in Wenda.
Regan’s festive wish is simple: faster judgments and an ‘Ozempic for bundles’.
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