Another complaint from our overburdened Appeal Court. In a case reported on March 3, Lord Justice Toulson said that that it would not be right to end his judgment without expressing strong disapproval of the volume of papers with which the court had been presented; the case in question was a grotesque example of a tendency to burden the court with documents of grossly disproportionate quantity and length. It was a practice which had to stop.
Hear, hear.
Something should be done to restrict the lengths to which the lawyers can go to collect information from anyone involved in a case before the courts & to reduce the quantity of documents which they, or their legal representatives, must plough through in order to prepare their defence
