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Judge in rugby brain injury case laments slow progress
The Guardian
|March 19, 2026
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 reminded the defendants and the claimants “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”.
Since the cases involve claims of degenerative brain diseases, Cook said, time is at a premium. He has told both sides to provide him with written updates between now and a scheduled case management hearing in October, when both sides will be required to have identified their lists of 28 lead claimants from among the hundreds involved.
This story is from the March 19, 2026 edition of The Guardian.
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