"The Royal Courts of Justice are a warren. They were built piecemeal over 125 years of intermittent construction, wings were added, blocks were expanded and then joined by a web of twisting staircases and long corridors. You navigate your way to whichever corner of it you have business in by checking the tiny print on the long daily case lists that are posted in the lobby early each morning, when the building always seems to be full of people hurrying in the other direction."
"For the last three years, three separate sets of legal action about brain damage in sport have been slowly making their way through here, lost in the hallways. One is in football, one is in rugby union, one is in rugby league. The same small firm, Rylands Garth, is behind all three. Sometimes these hearings take place in the modern rooms of the east block, where the carpet is peeling"
The Royal Courts of Justice are a maze built piecemeal over 125 years, with added wings, expanded blocks, twisting staircases and corridors. Three legal actions alleging brain damage in sport — football, rugby union and rugby league — have been slowly progressing through the courts. The small firm Rylands Garth represents all three claim sets. Hearings alternate between modern east-block rooms with peeling carpet and old stone rooms lined with heavy leather-bound books. The two rugby claims were case-managed together, creating procedural entanglement, while differing defendants require duplicate scheduling and agreement in quadruplicate. Several former players, including Steve Thompson, Alix Popham, Michael Lipman, Dan Scarbrough and Alex Abbey, have come forward.
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