It is more than five years now since the Woolf reforms came into force.
Back in 1999, there were high hopes for the ambitious programme of change to the civil justice system, and fears about the impact of some of the required changes.
Soaring costs and chronic under-investment in the court system are threatening to undermine the Woolf reforms. That is the verdict of a high-level roundtable on the Civil Procedure Rules, five years on. Sophie Evans reports
July 06, 2005 at 08:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
It is more than five years now since the Woolf reforms came into force.
Back in 1999, there were high hopes for the ambitious programme of change to the civil justice system, and fears about the impact of some of the required changes.
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