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NLJ this week: Delay, delay, delay—should judges get a move on?

07 October 2022
Issue: 7997 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Personal injury , Costs , Clinical negligence
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In this week’s NLJ, Professor Dominic Regan laments the terrible delays faced by a claimant, who had food poisoning on holiday in 2014, whose claim was not given a fair trial and who has only just been given leave to appeal by the Supreme Court—eight years after falling ill. 

Regan writes: ‘Quite apart from the affront to justice that this case represents, it is astonishing that a judgment handed down on 7 October last year should only secure permission to appeal almost a year later. In an era where delay is (rightly) punished, it ill becomes the judiciary to appear to be moving slowly.’

Regan also covers judges’ choices (and other judges’ lack of choice), and the high cost of clinical negligence claims.

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