... dark robes are too far removed from the people. Many regard the justice system as expensive, slow, and restrictive. Like ancient scribes, lawyers must still interpret law for the rest of society. This is not only costly to the majority of society, but also places barriers to entry of justice in an ostensibly democratic and egalitarian society. The general consensus that the justice system in the UK must be improved to meet the demands of a rapidly changing environment led the Lord Chancellor to commission the Woolf Report, "Access to Justice" in 1994. The Final Report (1996) which evolved to the Civil Procedure Act (1997), the Civil Procedure Rules (1999) and the Access to Justice Act (1999) set out a number of problems with the existing civil justice system and substantially modified the way that civil actions were processed. "Although, the Lord Woolf reforms have clearly restrained the adversarial manner in ...

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