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You're a foreign corporation. You decide to us England and Wales as the jurisdiction for your contracts. You have a dispute and instruct London lawyers. They are a few days late (and six days will seem only a few to you with a dispute already a year or two old) and as a result you chances of getting your costs if you win are lost. Your London Lawyers may then withdraw from the case, leaving you with the need to find a new lawyer and, probably, sue your old one. Your simple case has now become massively more complex. Despite all this the issues in your case against the original defendant are the same, but these complications may mean you won't or can't pursue it. As a result your business suffers. Will you still state that the law of E&W shall be the law of your contracts or will you use German, french, Italian or whatever law.

We risk seeing London as an important litigation centre being castrated. But then the Court of Appeal has complained in the apst about foreigners bringing their litigation disputes here so why should we be surprised. If this was BAE systems discouraging foreigners there would be uproar. The judges need to stop being so precious