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Charles N Stoddart, "Civil Procedure: Can
The Scots Learn From Woolf?", The Liverpool Law Review xix/1
(1997), 53-65: This article, written by a Scottish sheriff, looks from a
Scottish perspective at three of the problems highlighted by the Woolf survey
of civil justice in England and Wales: the need for written pleadings;
problems of case management; and the place for Information Technology
in the Scottish civil courts. As for the first, the author questions
the need to keep the traditional Scottish system in the light of the requirements
of speedy and affordable justice; he concludes that any structured system
of case management in civil cases will only succeed if it is carefully targeted;
and he bemoans the absence of an integrated system of Information Technology
in Scottish courts. He concludes that urgent action is necessary in all
three areas, lest litigants turn away from the courts to use other techniques
of dispute resolution.
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