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Editorial: Mitchell Update - Aidan Ellis, Temple Garden Chambers

26/03/14. Since the Jackson reforms and the Court of Appeal decision in Mitchell, anecdotal evidence suggests that most personal injury lawyers have some horror stories to tell. Whether they relate to cases being struck out for a single day’s delay or to unreasonable unless orders, the overwhelming impression has been that the County Courts are now enthusiastically embracing the new approach. Entirely predictably, this has encouraged the parties to take ever more pedantic procedural points. But there is now some evidence to suggest that litigants can take this approach too far and some courts are beginning to show signs of irritation about...

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