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Cases back up at Supreme Court

updated on 21 October 2011

According to a recent report in The Lawyer, increased demand has caused the waiting time for cases to progress from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court to more than double. One litigator told the publication that he was "gobsmacked" to find out that Court of Appeal judgments from 2010 were being scheduled for Supreme Court hearings as late as 2012 and 2013. He said: "It's always taken more than a year for cases to move upwards, but now we're starting to see a two, to two and half-year, wait. That's astonishing."

The backlog is not thought to be down to inefficiency but rather litigants' increasing reluctance to settle and a rise in the size and complexity of cases following the economic downturn. Holman Fenwick Willan litigation head Damian Honey told the publication: "The impression I get is that the number of cases that settle as you'd anticipate them to is lower than a couple of years ago."

For more Supreme Court news, see "Supreme Court takes to the telly".

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