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It's over before it began: the speedy, decisive and blunt judgment in Mitchell v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537 represents the real implementation of the Jackson reforms.
Professor Dominic Regan looks at what the next step is following Mitchell.
In a recent survey of general counsel in Australia and New Zealand, just four to six per cent said hourly billing is the optimal method of pricing legal services. When asked which pricing method they would prefer, the general response was a collective shrug of the shoulders - “we will know it when we see it”, they said.
Well, that’s got a really upbeat ring to it! As if legal practice isn’t challenging enough, we are now being told to not make a profit. No, clearly not. This is the further development of one of my core tenets and that is, production costs have absolutely nothing to do with pricing.
The Jackson reforms may yet prove to be the saving of our legal profession, says Professor Dominic Regan.