The same but worse is one way of summing up the latest year on year High Court litigation data. After another ghost year in the Four Courts marked by remote hearings and increasing delays in many of the judge’s lists, the sharp decline in new legal activity in 2020 continued into year two of the pandemic, albeit at a somewhat slower pace. When The Currency launched in autumn 2019, we decided to monitor High Court litigation trends at the beginning of each year to complement the breakdown of official data compiled by the Courts Service in its annual report every…

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