Most of the latest changes to the Civil Procedure Rules describe practices that those who use experts should already carry out, but practitioners will find it helpful that these are now supported by the courts, says Georgina Squire
The latest amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules will improve the rules on expert witnesses and new automatic orders will reduce the workload of district judges, says DJ Paul Mildred
Robert Heslett, president of the Law Society, has said that the MoJ's latest plans for legal aid cuts are so deeply flawed, full of ambiguities and contradictory statements that the society is not “reasonably able to understand quite what the proposals areâ€.
Masood Ahmed considers the guidance the courts have provided to those wishing to make strike out applications and how a party can avoid an order being made against them