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06 June 2014
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Civil way: 6 June 2014

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THE M WORD

You know the M word and it’s not Marmalade or Magnesium. We shall try to keep our promise and not mention it again or too often. This will be a challenge as we appraise you of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 5) Rules 2014 (SI 2014/1233) which came into force yesterday, 5 June 2014, without any transitional provisions.

Now MA Lloyd & Sons Ltd v PPC International Ltd [2014] EWHC 41 QB, [2014] (D) 130 (Jan) (see “Civil way”, NLJ, 21 March 2014, p18) in the wake of that M case focused attention on CPR 3.8. This scuppers any effective agreement between parties to extend time for compliance with a direction or court order which carries a sanction for non-compliance. The application for an extension has had to be made to the court although it has been open to the non-defaulting party to state it will not oppose an extension subject to the court’s blessing. Lloyd & Sons has led to

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The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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