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'The Woolf reforms have joined the long list of failed attempts to reform the civil justice system.' Discuss.
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'The Woolf reforms have joined the long list of failed attempts to reform the civil justice system.' Discuss Through criticism voiced by actors within the civil justice system, namely lawyers, judiciary, and litigants - it was apparent to many that effective and accessible civil justice was being compensated by an overabundance of adversarial tendencies. The civil justice system had become so unreliable and costly for the average citizen that it was in a state of crisis. Based on these reasons, Lord Woolf introduced his extensive answer to the failing system in a report entitled Access to Justice. Lord Woolf analyzed the civil justice system, concluding that the main problems were cost, delay, complexity, and uncertainty of outcome.1 As a result, Woolf proposed reforms that would attempt to alleviate such problems and in due course change the face and culture of litigation from adversarial to inquisitive. However, Woolf's main objective of creating...
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