28 LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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Q3 2019
HAS LITIGATION GONE COMPLETELY OFF THE RAILS?
COMPILED BY LEXPERT
Streamlining
Litigation
AS JOHN CAMPION of Gardiner Roberts
LLP wrote in Lexpert ("Change Agent",
June 2019):
"Time was once a friend of Justice. e
process for the settlement of civil disputes
was largely focused on the trial:
"Document production and oral dis-
covery were largely manageable and brief.
Trials were advanced by sophisticated bar-
risters with civil and criminal experience.
e trials were managed and heard before
equally sophisticated judges who them-
selves had much experience in openings,
closings, pleadings, evidence, cross exami-
nations and motions with a skeptical over-
