Procedure & practice

HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) has confirmed that the enhancement to the MyHMCTS online contested financial remedy service, which enables solicitor users to add barristers to online cases on which they are instructed, is now live. 

HM Courts and Tribunal Service has announced that with effect from 14 November 2022, the King’s Bench counter service will be re-opening to the public by appointment only from 10.00 to 16.30, Monday to Friday (except bank holidays) for certain services.

Equality before the law: David Walbank KC examines a case which tested the limits of this most fundamental legal doctrine

An introduction to Court-Appointed Intermediaries

A joint working party of the City of London Law Society (CLLS) and the Law Society of England and Wales Company Law & Financial Law Committees (the Joint Working Party) has published note on the execution of a document using an electronic signature. 

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has issued 'hints and tips' for practitioners when emailing the Courts and Tribunals Service Centre (CTSC), including the correct email addresses for proceedings issued before the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (DDSA 2020) came into force (divorcecase@justice.gov.uk) and proceedings issued after DDSA 2020 came into force (contactdivorce@justice.gov.uk). 

In this week’s Civil Way, former District Judge Stephen Gold notes the bad news that justice is taking longer, and also compiles a helpful snagging list for the new Watford county court premises. 

Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School provides a ‘costs crammer’, in this week’s NLJ, in the first of a special refresher series. 

New port alert order; Watford snags; waiting for a seal; Abu Dhabi start up prevails.

In the first of a special refresher series setting out the costs landscape, Dominic Regan tackles free money & other Part 36 considerations