Public Answers
Questions being asked
One question at a time, put to the people who decide, with whatever comes back published word for word. If no answer comes, that is published too.
Question one
Is civil law fair in England and Wales?
The ask. Fairness should not be traded for cost. In rule 1.1(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules, for justly and at proportionate cost
substitute justly and fairly, and at proportionate cost so far as that is consistent with dealing with the case justly and fairly
. One sentence in one rule; cost stays in the rule and stops outranking fairness.
Asked of. The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, the body set up under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 to write the rules of court.
Names so far. Opening shortly.
Letter sent. Not yet.
Answer. Awaiting the question opening.
You would think so. Then you read the rule.
The rule that runs every civil case names cost. It does not name fairness.
Question two
Not yet asked.
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