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This year marks the 25th anniversary of Lord Woolf’s seminal report on Access to Justice. The changes he recommended, given effect in the Civil Procedure Rules 2000, were intended to enable cases to be conducted proportionately and promote the use of pre-action protocols to bring about early settlement so that litigation would become a last resort. Since then, Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) were introduced in family cases in 2014, and there have been similar initiatives in the Tribunals. The objective in each instance has been to maximise the chances of early consensual resolution.