Supreme Court proceedings can be extremely lengthy as well as costly. If the decision is made to commence legal proceedings then those proceedings will, on average, take 2 years, at the minimum, to reach trial.
It is the fact that well over 90% of Supreme Court legal actions do not reach trial but are settled at some stage during the proceedings.
The rate of settlement for defamation actions is somewhat lower than that because the serving of a concerns notice normally serves to exhaust negotiations for settlement prior to the commencement of proceedings. It therefore is the case that if no settlement is reached after service of a concerns notice then both sides have dug in and that is the cause of a lower rate of settlement in defamation actions.
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