This month marks an important legal milestone, the twentieth anniversary of the commercial division of the High Court set up to fast-track dispute resolution in high-value business claims. At a gathering for the occasion in the Four Courts last week, Attorney General Rossa Fanning said: “There is a constant tendency for litigation in all of our courts to become ever more complicated, for more evidence to be called, for more documents to be discovered, for more cases to be cited, and for written judgments to become ever more lengthier and more prolific.” Few in the audience, mostly made up of…

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