Legal News

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has launched a new Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) on 12 June 2023 in order to help guide judges, legal representatives and litigants through online court procedures. 

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has issued a release note as to the ability for solicitors and caseworkers to indicate that a party’s contact details (address, phone number or email address) are to be kept confidential when the case is being created in MyHMCTS. 

Digital conveyancing platform InfoTrack has announced the opening of its newest offices in Brewery Wharf in Leeds. 

The Law Society has published the third edition of its blockchain report, in collaboration with the Tech London Advocates (TLA) Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Group, and the Society for Computers and Law (SCL). 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a toolkit which aims to increase awareness of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) and help parents and carers access funds belonging to disabled young people, should they lose the capacity to make decisions themselves. 

The third Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010) Practice Direction update of 2023 has been issued, amending various Practice Directions including, inter alia, the revocation of FPR 2010, PD 36ZB (Pilot scheme: Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order) and its replacement with a new Practice Direction, FPR 2010, PD 41E (Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order). 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published: ‘Making finance decisions for young people: parent and carer toolkit’. 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a policy statement on the cost control mechanism (CCM) and how it will operate in the reformed Judicial Pension Scheme 2022 (JPS 2022), which follows HM Treasury’s update on the approach to the CCM in all public service pensions under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013.

On 6 June 2023, the House of Lords debated Commons amendments to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REULRR Bill). 

Home-working has created legal conundrums for property practitioners—what to do about covenants preventing business use? In this week’s NLJ, Michael Ranson and Taylor Briggs, barristers at Falcon Chambers, explore the recent case of Hodgson v Cook in which a home owner sought modification of a covenant prohibiting home-working.