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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Andy Bull

Judge in rugby brain injury lawsuit tells legal teams to hurry up as cases drag on

A rugby ball
The parties’ compliance with obligations to disclose records have been a recurring source of contention. Photograph: Visionhaus/Corbis/Getty Images

The judge overseeing the pretrial phase of the two landmark litigation cases about brain injuries in rugby has issued another rebuke to the legal teams on both sides over their lack of progress.

Senior Master Jeremy Cook started the latest round of case management hearings by reminding both the defendants and the claimants that “it won’t have escaped anybody’s notice that some of these claims are now over five years old, and we haven’t made much progress”.

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