Overflowing prisons and delayed rape trials are easy for politicians and the public to grasp as a crisis with immediacy – something they share with raw sewage in our rivers and on our beaches. Accordingly, criminal justice featured prominently in all manifestos. Problems in civil justice are more like climate change – an existential threat, but one that, day to day, many find easier to ignore. Yet, swathes of our civil justice system are also at breaking point, forcing the rule of law to operate while maintaining a stress position … (more)
[Eduardo Reyes, Law Society Gazette, 5 July 2024]
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