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A practitioners’ guide to the intermediate track

01 December 2023 / Tricia Hemans , Daniel Black
Issue: 8051 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Costs
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Tricia Hemans & Daniel Black take a trip down the IT
  • Provides an in-depth and practical look at the intermediate track, covering the four bands, costs, and questions that are yet to be answered.
  • Offers advice and a handy checklist to use when deciding which cases fit the intermediate track.

We need to talk about IT.

There is a new track in English & Welsh CPR-litigation: the intermediate track (the IT). With its four complexity bands and associated tables of costs, at first blush the track may seem rather more indeterminate than intermediate. Yet, at least conceptually, it’s happily straightforward to understand, although the costs rules will necessitate us all spending more time cross-referencing figures.

The IT is part of a series of revisions made to the CPR by the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 (the 2023 amendment). Those revisions apply to a claim where proceedings are issued on or after 1 October 2023 (subject to transitional provisions made in relation to certain

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