Mike Williams

  • Letters
    Opinion

    Jackson reform conundrum

    16 April 2018

    Much heartache could have been avoided in the reform of civil justice had more notice been taken of our experience of everyday logjams.

  • News

    Jackson report: litigation processes and their impact on costs

    2010-04-26T00:00:00

    Much has already been said about Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for success fees, after-the-event insurance, costs shifting and the like, but much less, if anything, about litigation processes, and their impact on costs. Yet it is surely unarguable that a streamlining or simplification of the litigation process would result in ...

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    Council reforms not workable

    2008-12-11T00:00:00

    While it may be perceived to be a little anomalous for Law Society Council members to extend the nature of the debate from the Council chamber to the columns of the Gazette, a rejoinder to the letter of Tim O’Sullivan might be of interest to the profession (see [2008], Gazette, ...