Embracing technology: are you ready for the big bang next year, asks HH Judge Simon Brown QC
Embracing technology sounds a little risqué, perhaps, but Chapter 43 of the Jackson Report says you should! Lord Justice Jackson has said to Professor Regan (NLJ 9th March) that you should do this by “big bang” in April 2013. In fact the Civil Procedure Rules say that you should have been doing so since 26 April 1999 in furthering the overriding objective by “actively” case managing “making use of technology”. Professor Richard Susskind says that failure to do so will mean “The End of Lawyers”. Now the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says it is imperative for your very survival as an employee.
The OECD Employment Outlook 2012 says you must do this in order to survive in these dire economic times. Mark Keese, Head of the Employment Analysis and Policy Division of the OECD says that workers’ skills should be bolstered so that they could take advantage of
