When I was studying this subject my law professor was not enthused about this subject. This was largely due to the fact that he considered it to be about rich people pursuing other rich people and clogging up the courts. In some respects he is right; many of the cases that we see have little relevance for the everyday person in ordinary life. For example do you remember Jason Donovan where it was claimed that  [ Read More ]

The introduction of arbitration act 1996 was the start of many reforms to the legal systems to increase access to justice. What was fundamentally laid out in the act was that there were many paths that one could pursue to resolve a dispute. With lawyers fees on average in the area of 200 pounds per an hour getting legal advice, never mind actually pursuing it in the courts, was well beyond most people’s means. In  [ Read More ]