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Justice: Civil Litigation Reform

Did he not? Sorry. You were there; I was not. Thank you very much. Mr Straw said that the Jackson proposals, "““are designed to reduce the costs of civil litigation overall. Those costs have risen too high, and that is a bar to proper access to justice””.—[Official Report, Commons, 9/2/10; col. 740.]" Perhaps he was pointing to what the noble Lord, Lord Bach, just said. As the noble and learned Lord, Lord Neuberger—the Master of the Rolls—commented: "““Critics do not appear to have been able to provide an alternative model for a comprehensive package to tackle what seems universally acknowledged to be a non-sustainable problem of rising civil litigation costs. The time for analysing the problem has come to an end. The time for action has come””." The Lord Chancellor has brought these proposals forward in that spirit.