Insights By Penningtons Manches: Window dressing? The new pre-action practice direction
In the first of a regular comment column, Clare Arthurs and Richard Marshall consider recent developments ‘It is evident from the new practice direction that the courts will survey our pre-action efforts with a critical eye.’ We have a new pre-action practice direction! The catchily titled ‘Practice Direction Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols’ (the PD) came …