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NLJ this week: Expensive lawyers, costs reforms & language matters

19 April 2024
Issue: 8067 / Categories: Legal News , In Court , Costs
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Happy birthday, Woolfians! It’s been 25 years since the arrival of the Civil Procedure Rules. In this week’s NLJ, Professor Dominic Regan, aka ‘The insider’, pays tribute to the Woolfian attribute of proportionality, and to the Lady Chief Justice (pictured), who 'oozes common sense'

Prof Regan goes on to note judicial incredulity over a silk and junior team who cleared £30,000 ‘for a two-hour Friday application’. He also reports on a talk he gave to district judges, and comments on some interesting judgments, including on the circumstances in which witness statements must be in the witness’s mother tongue. He warns: ‘This is a gaping trap for litigators. Beware.’

Issue: 8067 / Categories: Legal News , In Court , Costs
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