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Woolf reforms
Woolf reforms New legal Rules adopted by the British courts in 1999 which revolutionised the way civil claims are pursued, based on Rt Hon Lord Woolf’s review of the then-extant UK civil justice system, which he called too slow, too costly and too complex. Legislation was then introduced to revamp the rules of court and are now called the Civil Procedure Rules, which contain 2 schedules:
• Schedule 1 contains various High Court rules (the old Supreme Court rules re-enacted with modifications), and
• Schedule 2 (re-enacted County Court rules).Woolf Reforms
Woolf Reforms the reforms to the civil justice system in England and Wales that followed the review of the system undertaken by Lord Woolf These are now implemented by Civil Procedure Rules. A central feature of the reforms was that cases should be allocated to an appropriate ‘TRACK’ depending upon their value. Also important was the idea that once a case is allocated to a track judges should manage its progress rather than, as in the past, that the parties and their lawyers should be in control of the speed at which the case progresses. Costs are now strictly controlled and are expected to reflect the value of the cause. |