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The Lord Chancellor is pursuing the proposition of cameras being allowed into court rooms. About a dozen broadcasting companies have met with officials of the Lord Chancellor’s Department to draft rules for a pilot project to film cases in..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

The future of silk?

The Lord Chancellor, speaking at a ceremony to mark the appointment of the new Queen’s Counsel, raised a serious question mark over the future of the silk system when he explained his decision to issue a consultation paper on the future of..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Direct access

The Bar Council has approved new rules governing direct access to the Bar which will come into effect one month after the Lord Chancellor has approved them, which is expected to be in May or June. The following summary is taken from Bar News: The..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

New CFA rules and regulations

The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No 10) Order 2003 The Conditional Fee Agreements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 The Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2003 which came into force on 2 June: amend the Conditional Fee..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Joining the back of the queue

Writing in the Law Society’s Gazette of 10 April, District Judge Jeremy Cochrane, the new president of the Association of District Judges, suggested that the meticulous work done by costs draftsmen is being undone by careless solicitors. All..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Refusal to mediate

Hurst v Leeming (ChD [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 379)

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Wasted costs order after stay

Wagstaff v Colls and another (CA TLR 11 April; SJ 17 April p419)

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Reforms

The following are extracts from the Lord Chancellor’s address to the APIL annual conference. Research The LCD will help fund more independent and objective research to help provide the means to more mediated resolutions in addition to the..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

The right to reject

Clegg and another v Andersson ([2003] EWCA Civ 320)

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Refusal of permission to appeal

R (On the application of Sivasubramaniam) v Wandsworth and Kingston upon Thames County Courts ([2003] 2 All ER 160)

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003

Court working dress consultation

The issue of wigs and gowns won’t go away. The Lord Chancellor has issued a consultation paper on the subject in which he says: ‘The job of our courts to is to deliver justice. In achieving that aim the courts must be accessible, people..

Online Published Date: 01 June 2003

Appeared in issue: Volume 22 No. 6 - 01 June 2003