Introduction
According to “A Guide To The Jackson Reforms” (July 2013), these reforms are known by this name because it was Sir Rupert Jackson – a senior Court of Appeal judge – who was requested by Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls, to carry out this review into the costs of civil litigation. The article reports that the review was commenced in early 2009 and the report presented to Jack Straw (then the Lord Chancellor) in January 2010 – a year later.
Quoting a statement by Sir Rupert Jackson included in the article:
“In some areas of civil litigation costs are disproportionate and impede access to justice. I therefore propose a coherent package of interlocking ...
