Not exact matches
The protocols promote greater cooperation and
early settlement and facilitate efficient
case management to control the pre-action behaviour of the parties, performing an important function in filtering out which
cases require
judicial attention.
These
early stages are intended to effectively limit the number of
cases that move on to stage 2 (conciliation and
case management) and stage 3 (
judicial consideration of documents and ultimate determination) of the OC process.
The judges behind the reforms had a well - intentioned view that
early and rigorous
judicial case management would make the process cheaper and more efficient.
Its other recommendations include: greater
judicial case management, with specialist judges and
early intervention; agreement on circumstances in which parties might lose costs protection; drawing up realistic budgets; and allowing the courts to continue to exercise cost - capping powers.