CPR: No procedural hiding place – the Mitchell effect

Deirdre Goodwin discusses the changing litigation landscape ‘The landmark judgment in Mitchell, and those which have followed, definitively welcome civil practitioners to the brave new world of qualified justice where fairness and ‘conscience’ become secondary to awareness of the limitations of court resources and financial expediency.’ The Court of Appeal decision in Mitchell MP v …
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Sanctions: Method in our madness!

Radd Seiger and Helen Morris discuss the lessons to be learned from Venulum Property Investments Ltd v Space Architecture Ltd ‘It is now abundantly clear that changes are afoot in the courts’ approach and application of the CPR.’ We represented the defendant in the Court of Appeal decision of Dixie v British Polythene Industries plc …
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