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Comment: Not ‘looming’, the judiciary is already in crisis

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Legal Business
15 June 2016
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If there was much to celebrate amid the continued rise of London as an international disputes centre at Legal Business’ second Commercial Litigation Summit on 24 May, the cloud on the horizon was apparent: the mounting conviction that the UK judiciary is near crisis.

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