There is growing evidence that English law is, in some areas, in desperate need of modernisation, alongside the civil justice system that underpins it - reforms essential to long-term prosperity. This report lays out the evidence for the need for modernisation to enhance UK's prosperity and global competitiveness, and presents recommendations that will aid this project.
To help tackle the numerous challenges to the ability of English law and the supporting civil justice system to continue to “deliver” economic advantages to the UK, action is needed to:
- Recognise more clearly the importance of English law and the civil justice system as an indispensable element of the “social infrastructure” and make it a higher priority among policymakers.
- Reduce the time and other cost problems that plague the civil justice system so that access to justice can be increased, in particular for businesses, and outcomes more easily and cheaply achieved.
- Modernise English law so that it is “fit” for the 21st Century economy.
- Protect English law from being undermined through its use by other jurisdictions.
- Ensure legal services are a key topic in future trade discussions and that trade arrangements.
- Strengthen existing, and build new international institutions and networks that will enhance the reputation of English law in particular, around the world.
- Continue to try and accede to the Lugano Convention as well as pushing for swift implementation (by signatories) of the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Courts and widespread adoption of the 2019 Hague Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments.
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