Hodges, Christopher --- "Settlement and its pitfalls in England and Wales" [2013] ELECD 1197; in Hodges, Christopher; Stadler, Astrid (eds), "Resolving Mass Disputes" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 106

Book Title: Resolving Mass Disputes

Editor(s): Hodges, Christopher; Stadler, Astrid

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782546900

Section: Chapter 5

Section Title: Settlement and its pitfalls in England and Wales

Author(s): Hodges, Christopher

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

The civil procedure system in England and Wales has now had over 12 years’ experience with settlement being a formal goal of civil procedure, under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR), but settlement has been embedded in the common law system for at least a century. However, the reforms inspired by first Woolf and recently Jackson show that costs rules, funding arrangements, lawyers’ culture, and general policy all have significant impact on settlement rates, and when and how settlement occurs.