"Arbitrate, Don’t Litigate"

Jonathan Haydn-Williams' article was recently posted on the website of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators at the following link, www.ciarb.org/news/ciarb-blog/arbitrate-dont-litigate.php. It suggests a solution to the difficulties facing anyone seeking to bring a claim of less than £1/4 million against banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and the like.

It is said that, many years ago, a disgruntled litigant used to walk up and down in front of the Royal Courts of Justice, wearing sandwich boards declaring "Arbitrate, don't Litigate". I don't know what bitter experience led him to declare his preference for arbitration in that way, but I suspect that, were he still alive and litigating today, the problems caused in the last year by some of the Jackson "reforms"  would have led him to dust off his boards and head for the Strand.