Jackson Reforms: If at first you don’t succeed

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2013 #143
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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Sanctions: Method in our madness!

Kennedys | The Commercial Litigation Journal | July/August 2013 #50
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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Procedure: Sticking to the rules – courts get tough on compliance post-Jackson

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | July/August 2013 #50
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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