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05 February 2010 / David Greene
Issue: 7403 / Categories: Opinion , Costs
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Politics & Jackson

The ink is hardly dry on the Jackson Report on the civil costs regime and the government is already moving swiftly on one of the recommendations.

The ink is hardly dry on the Jackson Report on the civil costs regime and the government is already moving swiftly on one of the recommendations. This may indicate that the political willpower is there to put into effect other recommendations made in the report. The political world, however, is not that simplistic or indeed reliable.

In moving forward, Jackson LJ, who is going to head up the momentum for change, should not place too much reliance on politicians to deliver the ends that he seeks to achieve. Much, of course, can be achieved without such support and the way forward may be to take a view that it may simply not be there. Looking to the immediate stakeholders, including us, the practitioners, may prove more productive than relying on the political world which marches to a very different

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