Dispute resolution in England and Wales: Call for Evidence

This Call for Evidence is seeking evidence on Dispute Resolution from all interested parties, the judiciary, legal profession, mediators and other dispute resolvers, academics, the advice sector, court users. We are particularly interested in collecting evidence from individuals or organisations with data to share on the relevant questions; or those who have had experience of dispute resolution within and outside of the courts system to support the development of more effective dispute resolution mechanisms. We welcome frontline insights with tangible examples. Foreword This year marks the 25th anniversary of Lord Woolf’s seminal report on Access to Justice. The changes he recommended, given effect in the Civil Procedure Rules 2000, were intended to enable cases to be conducted proportionately and promote the use of pre-action protocols to bring about early settlement so that litigation would become a last resort. Since then, Mediation Informati