Recent judgments indicate the English courts’ increasing impatience with non-compliant trial witness statements in the Business and Property Courts Factual trial evidence in the English Business and Property Courts was overhauled nearly four years ago with the introduction of Practice Direction 57AC. Subject to certain exceptions, the new regime sought to do away with verbose,
2023-2024 was another record year for the London Commercial Court with 64% of litigants who appeared before the court hailing from jurisdictions outside of the UK.[1] Even ostensibly domestic civil disputes are now likely to possess multiple international elements or touch points. This can include witnesses and documentary evidence (held physically or in data centres)
Background German civil procedural law and, in particular, its application by the courts, have up until now offered sufficient flexibility to enable applicants to obtain preliminary injunctions without conducting an oral hearing – a special characteristic that is not found in many other jurisdictions. This is one of the reasons why, in the past, parties
