Strike out strikes back once more

The ancient jurisdiction to strike out a civil claim for want of prosecution seemingly disappeared in 1999 with the arrival of the Civil Procedure Rules, but it is now back “and with a vengeance”, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School writes in this week’s NLJ. Regan, who advised Lord Justice Jackson on his civil justice review, cites recent case law to illustrate the point that a claimant who launches litigation “is now, more than ever before, expected to get on with it”.