SPECIAL MASTERS - AN ALTERNATIVE WITHIN THE COURT SYSTEM

Court dockets are more crowded than ever. It can take years for a civi l case to be heard. How can these delays be mitigated? One way of cont rolling the length of complex litigation and of bringing lengthy cases to an acceptable close is the appointment of special masters by the c ourts, says the author. The use of special masters is particularly app ropriate in complex litigations involving millions of dollars in claim s and a labyrinth of issues that would take litigation an inordinate a mount of time to unravel.