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Many solicitors are ‘predicting a tsunami of litigation with courts being overwhelmed just as they are dealing with the backlog of work developed in the lockdown,’ David Greene, senior partner, Edwin Coe, & NLJ consultant editor, writes in this week’s NLJ.
From the backlog of 45,000 criminal cases to remote hearings to the government’s decision to review judicial review, the justice system is undergoing ‘challenging and uncertain times’.
The Commercial Court may be ‘fully up to speed and up to date’, but the County Courts are less equipped to weather the storm.
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