- (e) persons with experience in and knowledge of the lay advice sector, and
- (f) persons able to represent the interests of particular kinds of litigants (for example, businesses or employees).
(3) The functions of the Council are to include—
- (a) keeping the civil justice system under review,
- (b) considering how to make the civil justice system more accessible, fair and efficient,
- (c) advising the Lord Chancellor and the judiciary on the development of the civil justice system,
- (d) referring proposals for changes in the civil justice system to the Lord Chancellor and the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, and
- (e) making proposals for research.
(4) The Lord Chancellor may reimburse the members of the Council their travelling and out-of-pocket expenses.
Court orders
Power of courts to make orders for preserving evidence, etc. 7.—(1) The court may make an order under this section for the purpose of securing, in the case of any existing or proposed proceedings in the court—
- (a) the preservation of evidence which is or may be relevant, or
- (b) the preservation of property which is or may be the subject-matter of the proceedings or as to which any question arises or may arise in the proceedings.
(2) A person who is, or appears to the court likely to be, a party to proceedings in the court may make an application for such an order.
(3) Such an order may direct any person to permit any person described in the order, or secure that any person so described is permitted—
- (a) to enter premises in England and Wales, and
- (b) while on the premises, to take in accordance with the terms of the order any of the following steps.
(4) Those steps are—
- (a) to carry out a search for or inspection of anything described in the order, and
- (b) to make or obtain a copy, photograph, sample or other record of anything so described.
(5) The order may also direct the person concerned—
- (a) to provide any person described in the order, or secure that any person so described is provided, with any information or article described in the order, and
- (b) to allow any person described in the order, or secure that any person so described is allowed, to retain for safe keeping anything described in the order.
(6) An order under this section is to have effect subject to such conditions as are specified in the order.
