Our report on the invitation-only Commercial Court summit (see story), which took place on 30 October, had a familiar ring about it. This is because many of the ideas that have emerged from the summit received a thorough airing at the Legal Week Litigation Forum, which took place in September.
The clamour for better-resourced commercial judges equipped with the necessary tools to keep all those expensively assembled legal teams at bay is getting ever louder. The problem, of course, is that the vast bulk of the reforms suggested both at the Legal Week conference and Mr Justice David Steel’s symposium require something that is in very short supply: cash.
