I had the recent privilege of interviewing Lord Harry Woolf of Barnes, former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. We touched on the seminal Halsey Case, which levied costs against a party that had prevailed, but had unreasonably refused to mediate as urged by the counterparty, thereby burdening the courts and the parties in requiring litigation of a matter that might have been resolved earlier.
We discussed the onus upon judges to “put teeth into” orders or suggestions...
