Roger Smith reports on the ongoing legal digital revolution
Two conferences and a new website in May gave ample evidence of the onward march of digital in the law and the courts.
Our masters’ voices
Two of the big beasts of the court reform world were out at the same conference held by the Westminster Legal Policy Forum. Lord Justice Jackson, for once, had to share top billing but continued to thrill his audience with warnings that “fixed recoverable costs for all remaining fast track cases is unfinished business, which needs to be addressed”. He confirmed also that “his eye was moving on to ‘the lower regions of the multi-track”. Pointedly, he asserted that a small business survey advocating fixed costs for business disputes up to £500,000 should be given “some significance”. He also staked out an interest in fixed costs for employers’ liability disease fast track cases, pointing that these had only escaped because of the 2010 election and the intervention of surgery from which he had to recover: “The omission was due to historical accident.
