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@Anonymous; Commented on: 28 February 2018 14:18 GMT

"....14 years of the 17 years was probably waiting for relevant Court directions! That's how long it takes nowadays. .."

I think it is in Walker and Walker on the English Legal System where it referred to the fact that before the Chancery Amendment Act and Common Law Procedure Act if you started the case in the wrong Court you had to recommence, and that I recall in Knight v The Marquis of Waterford this happened after 14 years?

Read Dickens as Legal Historian though. It is great. t refers to his problems over Patent Litigation and also that if one had a Chancery Action the pleadings had to be written out copperplate by the Six Clerks (Department) each time a person died and statistically one of the Beneficiaries of a fairly large Trust would die each year .....