Will Civil Justice ever be the same again?

Gosh - it has been a big day for civil justice - Jackson comes to fruition?

• Good bye success fee recoverability, will now be paid for by Claimants. 
• Hello contingency fees with an increase of 10% in general damages to fund them.
• Good bye PI Claimants having to pay a successful defendant's costs and therefore good bye to ATE insurance and premiums.

[see here on the above]

• Hello to an increase in the costs which can be recovered by Litigants in Person [long overdue!]
• Good bye (probably) to the £5,000 small claim limit - which dramatically could be increased to £15,000? So very limited costs recovery in all cases up to £15,000 (so no recoverable expert evidence costs in those cases? Will not apply to PI and housing disrepair) [Bit uneasy about this - £15,000 seems a bit high for informal justice in the hands of a deputy district judge in a busy back to back list]
• Hello to a new High Court lower limit of £100,000 [High Court is already short of work - but then it seems that High Court judges are going to sit in the county court to take up the slack? See below]
• Hello to a new Chancery county court upper limit of £350,000 [This is very very long overdue - there is a comedy limit of £30,000 at present]
• Good bye to the local county court -  a national county court, merged with Tribunals?  [Shame, but understandable]
• Hello to more High Court Judges sitting in the County Court.[Presumably because the new limit will mean even less work for them? See above]
• Hello to more enforced mediation [bad idea - see here]
• Good bye to face to face small claims hearings - more paper and telephone hearings [I shudder at this, too Continental for my tastes]