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DESIGNATED CIVIL JUDGES SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHO IS GIVEN THE TASK OF TRYING COMPLEX TRIALS: COURT OF APPEAL MISSIVE TO DESIGNATED CIVIL JUDGES (& MANY OTHERS...)

DESIGNATED CIVIL JUDGES SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHO IS GIVEN THE TASK OF TRYING COMPLEX TRIALS: COURT OF APPEAL MISSIVE TO DESIGNATED CIVIL JUDGES (& MANY OTHERS…)

June 18, 2026 · by gexall · in Appeals, Applications, Civil evidence, Civil Procedure, Listing, Members Content, Personal Injury

Here we look at some comments made yesterday by the Court of Appeal.  The court allowed an appeal by a defendant in a personal injury case.  The case was heard by a Deputy District Judge.  The court was clear that…

MORE ON LAST MINUTE ADJOURNMENTS: SERIOUS CASES PULLED FROM THE LIST AT THE LAST MOMENT (AND CLAIMANTS HAVING TO PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF EXTENDING THE LISTING PERIOD)

May 7, 2018 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Adjournments, Case Management, Civil Procedure, Listing, Members Content

I am continuing to collect issues relating to listing. Doing this by a serious of posts on the topic.  You can get a flavour of the problems by some of the issues raised on Twitter over the past few days. …

LISTING - WAITING TWO YEARS FOR PERMISSION TO APPEAL: 10 MONTHS TO HEAR AN APPLICATION: THIS IS NOT A MODERN JUSTICE SYSTEM

LISTING – WAITING TWO YEARS FOR PERMISSION TO APPEAL: 10 MONTHS TO HEAR AN APPLICATION: THIS IS NOT A MODERN JUSTICE SYSTEM

April 15, 2018 · by gexall · in Abuse of Process, Adjournments, Civil Procedure, Listing, Members Content

I’m quite happy to carry on posting about listing issues.  Litigants should not suffer in silence.  I post these three reports without comment. Delay of 10 months for listing of applications “Fast track personal injury claim in Central London County…

COURT LISTING - JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE

COURT LISTING – JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN’T GET ANY WORSE

April 11, 2018 · by gexall · in Adjournments, Case Management, Listing, Members Content

I wasn’t planning a regular series on the vagaries of court listing.  I post these without comment. Both from Twitter today. Parties not told of an adjournment Barrister Banter  ‏@balchinlawyer 11 So at Court to discover case was adjourned a week ago…

PROBLEMS WITH LISTING: A CONTINUING SAGA

PROBLEMS WITH LISTING: A CONTINUING SAGA

April 9, 2018 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Adjournments, Civil Procedure, Listing, Members Content

Complaints about listing continue. Some are put as comments to the original post on this blog, some use the #courtlisting  hashtag on Twitter.  This is just a flavour of complaints in the last week. Three months to acknowledge receipt of…

THE SECRET BARRISTER - WHERE DO I START? (1) LETS TRY LISTING

THE SECRET BARRISTER – WHERE DO I START? (1) LETS TRY LISTING

March 25, 2018 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Book Review, Listing, Members Content

Like many of the legal fraternity I have spent this weekend reading the Secret Barrister’s “Stories of the Law and how its Broken”.   The book is about criminal law and criminal procedure, however there is much for civil litigators to…

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