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This page contains our latest consultation responses, research, reports and press releases.

27 January 2010
Appointment of new Council members

15 January 2010
Link to Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report - 

Summary by Robert Musgrove of Review of Civil Litigation Costs : Final Report (PDF 57Kb)

Lord Justice Jackson Report recommendations with comments by Robert Musgrove (PDF 232Kb)

10 December 2009
Costs of Care consultation

03 December 2009
Civil Justice Council Business and Activity Plan 2009 to 2012 PDF icon

25 August 2009
Submission to the Review of Civil Litigation Costs - Draft Code of Conduct for Third Party Funders PDF icon

07 March 2009
Improved access to justice - Funding options and proportionate costs PDF icon

23 February 2009
Pre-action protocol for possession claims based on mortgage or home purchase PDF icon

12 December 2008
Improving Access to Justice through Collective Actions PDF icon

12 December 2008
Press release: Improving Access to Justice through Collective Actions PDF icon

21 November 2008
Civil Justice Council Contingency Fees Report PDF icon

22 October 2008
Press Release : Pre-action protocol for possession claims based on mortgage arrears PDF icon

22 October 2008
Pre -action protocol for possession claims based on mortgage arrears PDF icon

08 October 2008
General Pre-Action Protocol and Practice Direction on Protocols - Response to consultation PDF icon

12 September 2008
Minutes from Collective Consumer Redress Event: Draft Recommendations to Government PDF icon

05 August 2008
'Improving Access to Justice through Collective Actions' : A Series of Recommendations to the Lord Chancellor PDF icon

27 June 2008
Minutes of Collective Consumer Redress conference and two appendices, 27th March 2008 Word icon

Class Actions Reinventing the wheel

Sixty design issues for an opt out collective action regime


13 May 2008
Minutes of Pre-Action Protocol conference on 13th March 2008 Word icon

25 April 2008
Annual report 2007 PDF icon

11 April 2008
Minutes of the Third Party Funding Conference on 8th February 2008 Word icon

29 February 2008
Consultation paper: Mortgage arrears pre-action protocol PDF icon

21 February 2008
Consultation paper: General pre-action protocol and practice direction on pre-action protocols PDF icon
Consultation paper: Annex A PDF icon
Consultation paper: Annex B PDF icon
Consultation paper: Annex C PDF icon

08 February 2008
Reform of collective redress in England and Wales  PDF icon

31 January 2008
Summary of responses consultation paper on consolidated pre-action protocol Word icon

10 January 2008
Minutes of Collective Consumer Redress Event on 29th November 2007 Word icon

02 August 2007
CJC Response - Case track limits and the claims process for personal injury claims PDF icon

02 August 2007
Protocol for the Instruction of Experts to give evidence in civil claims PDF icon

29 June 2007
Improved Access to Justice - Future Funding of Litigation PDF icon

29 June 2007
Improved Access to Justice - Future Funding of Litigation - Appendices PDF icon

11 May 2007
Press release - Civil Justice Council announces a successful conclusion to the mediation in Woolard v Fowler PDF icon - Medical agency fees

02 May 2007
Civil Justice Council annual report 2006 PDF icon

28 February 2007
The interface between the public and private provision of care and accommodation services: Observations by the clinical negligence and serious injury committee of the Civil Justice Council  PDF icon - This subject is currently one of the most intractable issues facing claimants, defendants, the public sector providers, insurers and the courts, in personal injury claims.

28 February 2007
Master of the Rolls letter: Review of legal aid PDF icon

28 February 2007
The Interface between the Public and Private Provision of Care and Accommodation Services PDF icon - Introduction to the following paper - "Observations by the clinical negligence and serious injury committee of the Civil Justice Council"

06 February 2007
Consultation on consolidated pre-action protocol - The Consultation document seeks views on proposals to introduce a Consolidated Pre-Action Protocol that will reduce the present nine to one protocol by incorporating the core steps and guidance common to all of the protocols.

September 2005 press release: Improved access to justice - funding options and proportionate costs

July 2006: Annual report 2005 PDF icon

August 2005 press release: Civil Justice Council welcomes simplification of CFA regulations

July 2004 consultation response: Civil court fees

June 2004 press release: Civil Justice Council research shows mediation works in small claims cases

June 2005 press release: Master of the Rolls welcomes Civil Justice Council experts protocol

July 2004: Annual report 2003 PDF icon

September 2004 consultation response: Interim payments and further damages in personal injury cases PDF icon - A response from the Clinical Negligence and Serious Personal Injury Committee

June 2005 press release: Civil Justice Council launches a new consultation on a rent arrears protocol

March 2004 press release: Claimant lawyers and insurers unable to agree success fees for employers' liability claims

Collective Action - Draft Rules of Court (covering letter) PDF icon

Press Release: Mortgage Arrears pre-action protocol Word icon

November 2005 consultation response: Civil and family court fee increases PDF icon

February 2007: Consultation on consolidated pre-action protocol - The Consultation document seeks views on proposals to introduce a Consolidated Pre-Action Protocol that will reduce the present nine to one protocol by incorporating the core steps and guidance common to all of the protocols.

March 2004: Court-based mediation: A preliminary analysis of the small claims mediation scheme at Exeter County Court - A report prepared for the Civil Justice Council by Dr Sue Prince

July 2005: Annual report 2004 PDF icon

June 2004 press release: A third success for the Civil Justice Council in bringing an end to the "costs war"

October 2004 responses to a Legal Services Commission consultation on civil legal aid funding from:

Clinical Negligence and Serious Personal Injury Committee PDF icon

Access to Justice Committee PDF icon

ADR Committee PDF icon