The introduction of Practice Direction 31BOn 1 October 2010, a new practice direction, 31B on the disclosure of electronic documents comes into effect. The new practice direction is designed to ...

Dr Lawrence McNamara is an academic at the University of York and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law A new practice direction reveals some valuable progress in the ...

Practice Direction 57AC has now been in force for almost two years. Its aim was to eradicate the practice of lawyers creating lengthy, document-heavy witness statements as vehicles for narrative, ...

It has been just over a year since the Disclosure Pilot Scheme (PD 51U) was made permanent by way of PD 57AD. As was well documented at the time, the purpose of the Disclosure Pilot Scheme, and by ...