Editor-Over recent years the incidence of litigation, particularly in obstetrics and gynaecology, has increased dramatically. In 1995 I recorded the time that I spent dealing with in house matters of litigation. From 1 January to 31 December 1995 I spent 110.5 hours of time dealing with litigation issues (correspondence, reports to solicitors, interviews, etc). This amounts to about three working weeks. The vast majority of this …