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The Impact of Mitchell - David Johnson, President of FOIL and Large Loss Partner at Weightmans LLP

16/12/13. The case of Mitchell v NGN is already being described as the case of the decade although it is perhaps more accurate to describe it as the case of a decade and a half as its roots go straight back to Woolf. Case management was a central theme behind Lord Woolf’s proposals in 1999: he blamed lawyers for the delay in the system and aimed to tackle it by transferring more of the responsibility for progressing cases from lawyers to judges. Ten years on, Lord Justice Jackson picked up the baton, aiming to finish the job with new rules on costs budgeting and a greater emphasis on adherence to the rules. Mitchellis the final jigsaw piece: fail to deliver and the consequences will be severe...

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