The Canadian Federal Court has issued a practice direction aimed at streamlining complex litigation. The practice direction formalizes and extends to all practice areas various initiatives that have ...

After a long hiatus, this writer appeared before a Magistrate court over a small claims case (less than N10 million liquidated money demand), and the experience before Magistrate Odubayo Oluwafumilayo ...

Today, I take a break from reviewing Guyana’s landlord-tenant laws to discuss a significant development in the country’s legal landscape. On February 14, 2025, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ...

Dr Lawrence McNamara is an academic at the University of York and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law A new practice direction reveals some valuable progress in the ...

Many practitioners will be aware that Practice Direction 57AC (the practice direction) came into force on 6 April 2021, imposing a number of new requirements in respect of trial witness statements in ...

The UK’s Practice Direction 51ZH launches a two year pilot to improve public access to documents used in hearings in certain business courts. Broadly, the practice direction is intended to move from ...

The introduction of Practice Direction 31BOn 1 October 2010, a new practice direction, 31B on the disclosure of electronic documents comes into effect. The new practice direction is designed to ...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has issued a new Practice Direction on expert evidence, marking a step forward in how economic and technical expertise is managed in competition litigation. This update ...

Although the National Industrial Court of Nigeria Practice Direction aims to promote access to justice and expeditious disposal of cases, Kingsley Ibe and Damilola Ajayi argue that this intention is ...