{"id":485,"date":"2007-12-06T23:29:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2007-12-06T23:30:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T23:30:04","slug":"brevity-is-a-new-watchword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Brevity is a new watchword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post-BCCI trial working party has presented an 83 page report to the Commercial Judges and Commercial Court Users&#8217; Committee.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/j0227735.jpg\" title=\"j0227735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/j0227735.jpg\" alt=\"j0227735.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"72\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report followed the 23-month BCCI trial, which opened with an 80-day speech by the barrister Gordon Pollock QC (speaking for 4 hours each day he talked as much as an A-Level law lecturer over the two years of the course).<\/p>\n<p>The report proposes that from now on opening arguments should not exceed 50 pages and two days.<br \/>\nBut the worst news for long-winded barristers is that even the longest cases will be allocated just 13 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post-BCCI trial working party has presented an 83 page report to the Commercial Judges and Commercial Court Users&#8217; Committee. The report followed the 23-month BCCI trial, which opened with an 80-day speech by the barrister Gordon Pollock QC (speaking for 4 hours each day he talked as much as an A-Level law lecturer over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}