This article examines various innovations within the modern English civil justice system. In particular, the English procedural code, CPR (1998) Rule 1.4, requires the court to further the overriding objective by `actively' managing cases. This radical innovation gave English judges a new role. Before 1999 most judges had not become involved systematically and actively in case management. They had instead prided themselves on being detached from the preparations for trial other than to respond to applications brought before them by the parties.
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