Claimant lawyers have described the government's decision to implement all the major reforms of the Jackson review on costs in civil litigation as “bitterly disappointingâ€.
As the government goes full steam ahead with Jackson, Simon Gibbs brings us up to speed on the current case law ahead of wholesale civil justice reform
When Ken Clarke unveiled his widely anticipated plans to reform no win, no fee arrangements last Tuesday, nobody expected that he would also put forward another set of proposals for the reform of the civil justice system as a whole. In the maelstrom that engulfed the personal injury world later that day, one issue was remarkably absent...
Personal injury claimant lawyers have hit back at the government's decision to endorse Lord Justice Jackson's 'no win, no fee' reforms, saying it will lead to denial of access to justice for more than 50,000 potential claimants and that the plan is "ideologically rather than evidence driven".
The government's localism agenda and the proposed changes to the planning system continue to dominate the landscape, say Julian Boswall and Gary Soloman
