Ms Angela Denning:

These new rules are less than a month old and they need to be given time to bed in to see the impact on the process of the moving of cases through the list. They codified a lot of what was there previously but the Heather Hill judgment is not that old realistically. In court time it is not that old so this is only bedding down now as well. We will have the changes that come with the commencement of the new Act but I believe this is one of the areas where the rules need to be given a bit of a chance to work.