HC Deb 18 November 1996 vol 285 cc425-6W
39. Mr. Steen

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will take steps to accelerate hearing dates in the High Court in relation to accident claims. [2876]

Mr. Streeter

The Department is currently taking forward reform of the civil justice system in the light of Lord Woolf's review and one of its aims is to bring cases to a conclusion more expeditiously. Pending implementation of the reforms, litigants or their representatives continue to be at liberty to apply to the court to accelerate the hearing of an accident claim, where appropriate.