COURT PROCEDURE
REDUCTION OF COSTS. NEW RULES FORMULATED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, May 2. In consequence of representations made by Chambers of Commerce and individual business men Viscount Sankey, Lord Chancellor, has drawn up new rules designed to reduce the cost of litigation and to simplify the hearing of law cases Certain classes of cases are definitely excluded from the new procedure, such as libel, breach of promise, and cases where plaintiff alleges fraud. \ solicitor ''or a plaintiff in future will be entitled to ask for other classes of eases to he tried according to the simplified procedure. A Judge will then be able to transfer a ease to Assizes or -to a County Court, dispense with a jury, limit the number of expert witnesses, and curtail the number of documents to toe placed before the Court, and all things which now tend greatly to increase costs. A Judge will also be able to record the consent of both parlies to the waiving of the right to appeal. A memorandum points out that the new procedure offers great possibilities to suitors desirous of a speedy ■conclusion of a case, but adds that, no system can help those wtio are hostile to settlement at a reasonable expenditure of time and money.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18625, 3 May 1932, Page 7
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212COURT PROCEDURE Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18625, 3 May 1932, Page 7
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