Abstract: | In this address to the law Society winter school the Judge President draws attention to the 1974 report of the JUSTICE committee on English civil procedure and considers the extent to which its recommendations could usefully be adopted in Zimbabwe. The recommendation that the existing system of pleading be changed in order to achieve the earliest possible disclosure of the full facts of the parties' cases, and the evidence by which those facts are to be proved, has much to recommend it. The recommendations for reform of the procedure after close of pleadings, hinging as they do on the office of Master of the Queen's Bench, could not be adopted here in detail, but much could be achieved by more vigorous use of the pre-trial conferece procedure, as is done in America. |