Practice Direction does not make perfect

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Global Investigations Review on 20 May 2022 here.

In this article Alexandra Webster, Simmons & Simmons and Kathryn Arnot-Drummond, Cloth Fair Chambers examine the impact that significant changes to the rules on the content and preparation of civil witness statements may have on cases involving parallel criminal proceedings, including the challenges and opportunities differing standards in each forum may create for the defence.