Roman-style arbitration could be a model for Scotland to follow scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Will Cole considers some recent developments in ADR north and south of the border from a Scottish perspective, including the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil, and the implications for commercial litigation in Scotland. Since the turn of the century, the courts in
Law Society: Fee review mechanism needed for Scotland s civil courts scottishlegal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scottishlegal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Support within the UK for the principles of maintaining a system where justice is administered locally or in public was evaporating even before Covid-19; in the decade to 2020, more than half the Magistrates Courts in England were closed. Civil litigation is inexorably shifting online. In 2014 an Online Dispute Resolution Advisory Group, chaired by Richard Susskind, started exploring online techniques to process low value civil claims in England. A report by the Scottish Civil Justice Council from July last year proposes that Civil Online be extended from low value actions to all cases.