Following the Woolf reforms and the increase in solicitor-advocacy, more claims are being settled out of court, while barristers have been forced to compete harder as solicitors encroach further onto their territory. Jan Harvey examines the future of the Bar.
June 19, 2002 at 08:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
When Lord Woolf announced the implementation of his Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) in 1999, it was clear that the man in charge of the biggest shake-up of civil law administration in a century was not going to do things by halves.
Court proceedings issued in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court fell 63% in the year after the reforms were introduced, while mediation levels soared, then fell.
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