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