The extension is one of five changes announced by the Disclosure Working Group (DWG) last week. The others are, second, the creation of a separate regime for ‘less complex claims’ within the pilot and, third, ‘express recognition that disclosure in multi-party claims is likely to need a bespoke approach from the court’.
Fourth, the process of agreeing lists of issues has been made simpler and less contentious through modifications to the provisions relating to lists of issues for disclosure, Model C and Model D. Finally, the disclosure guidance has been redrafted to remove the emphasis on the need for a hearing.
Sir Julian Flaux, Chancellor of the High Court, said the feedback ‘was constructive and has been instrumental in helping to shape the further refinements now put forward by the DWG’.
