Re Atrium Training Services Ltd [2013] EWHC 1562 (Ch)

Case Report: Baker v Hallam Estates Ltd [2013] EWHC 2668

Relief from sanctions; CPR 3.9; overriding objective ‘There is now much greater emphasis on compliance in all areas of the court’s affairs in each division. Procedural rules and time limits are not advisory. They demand compliance.’ Practitioners have had to adapt to a multiplicity of reforms to the civil litigation system over the past six …

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Jackson Reforms: If at first you don’t succeed

Peter Frost examines the impact on employment lawyers of the latest attempt to make civil litigation cheaper The Jackson reforms make a number of radical changes to the way cases are to be conducted in the High Court and any practitioner who is not au fait with these changes runs a real risk that they …

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Procedure: Sticking to the rules – courts get tough on compliance post-Jackson

Anna Pertoldi and Maura McIntosh look at judicial views on compliance ‘A number of High Court decisions since 1 April have highlighted the increased focus on compliance. This article considers three of the recent judgments.’ The changes brought in on 1 April 2013 to implement the Jackson reforms included two that received comparatively little attention …

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