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There have been a lot of changes to civil procedure through the pandemic



COVID-19 has meant legal practitioners are being required to adapt to a new way of working and a rapidly evolving legal system.

As one example, the approach to discovery has changed fundamentally.

  
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Courts now apply the rules relating to discovery based on three principles:

Relevance, Proportionality and Cooperation between parties.

Courts no longer accept wide discovery including bundles of irrelevant documents such as five years’ worth of correspondence. The courts now require narrow discovery.

 
  

For full details behind this change,
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