Civil Justice Council

Have they managed too well without a PACR reversal? They certainly couldn't now claim that it was urgent.

And what I'm hearing is that they, you know, privately, the MOJ are basically being quite upfront about the fact that it's Because a broad review has taken place by the Civil Justice Council, the advisory body, and that has produced a very good but very wide-ranging report suggesting proposals for reform of the industry.

And the CJC did say, don't wait for all these other changes.

Reverse PACR now, it's urgent.

But I would not be optimistic as to when it's going to happen.

And the longer it's left, the more you question whether it is going to happen.

Paul, there's, I think, 58 recommendations in the Civil Justice Council review of litigation funding.

I'm not going to ask you to list them all.

yeah yeah so uh my background is i've started a number of businesses um all that have been focused on uh sort of uh trying to help make things better within the consumer or the business landscape i built a website that helped consumers raise and resolve about 44 billion pounds for free i built a cashback app that's got consumers back about 400 million and i've now been working on trusted payments but aside from that i sit on the board of the ombudsman group or ombuds group, sorry, I should say, and a board member, a non-executive board member of Consumer Scotland.

I sat on the Civil Justice Council.

So I've been involved in the area of actually interaction between businesses and consumers for about 15 years now.

Which is all incredibly impressive.

And I'll just provide a little bit of background about that very briefly.

The Civil Justice Council launched a consultation for the use of AI for preparing court documents.

That was in February 2026, interim report 30th of June, and is mostly about whether new rules are needed to govern the use of AI by legal representatives for the preparation of court documents.

They appear to be moving towards the conclusion no, but they're looking still at that question on the preparation of expert reports.