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Jürgen Beier, "The Woolf Report and German Civil Procedure", The Liverpool Law Review Vol. xix no.1 (1997), 67-88. - There have always been reasons for neighbouring (and sometimes distant) countries to examine each other's legal systems. Membership of the European Union gives to the mutual examination of members' systems a particular significance, bearing in mind the increasing role of EC law throughout the Union, and of those forces tending towards the convergence of legal systems within the Union. This article sees Lord Woolf's report on "Access to Justice" as part of this broader European process, cross-referring as it does to certain details of German law and of other systems foreign to England and Wales, but in turn forming part of the general European legal culture which those responsible for the legal systems of the various member states would be neglectful to ignore. As to Germany on the one hand and England and Wales on the other, many common problems and some common solutions are observed, notwithstanding the very distinct judicial traditions concerned. e-mail: pamadajo@inanimus.in-berlin.de

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