In the wake of Woolf.
With the Woolf Reforms now several months' old, Ken Cannar looks at the impact that they have had so far and also on the ways in which they have still to affect legal cases for insurers.
Without doubt, 26 April was a critical date for insurers. It markedthe start of dramatic changes in the civil justice system by putting into
practice the new Civil Procedure Rules that encapsulate
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