It is to be hoped that it will ensure greater access to justice, and not just greater access to dispute resolution. By any other name SOME familiar terms have disappeared along with the advent of Lord Woolf's changes. Plaintiffs are now to be referred to as claimants in the English courts. The writ becomes the claim form. No argument there.
Discovery becomes disclosure.
I don't care. A pleading becomes a statement of case. But there are some changes which I am not too happy about. Gone, too, is dear old Anton Piller, thrown over for the mundane 'search order'. Henceforth, we must protect our Himalaya clauses and our bumbershoots from judicial meddling.