Judges are urged to keep it brief, former district judge Stephen Gold writes in this week’s Civil way
The reason is the cost of obtaining a transcript will depend on the length measured by the number of folios.
Gold explains the situation more fully in his column, and advises that litigators thinking of putting in a request for brevity ‘try out this direction at your next case management conference and see whether you get your Green Book slapped’.
Gold also covers reductions to the special account interest rate as well as recent case law on ‘matrimonialisation’, and raises an alert on the single joint expert.
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