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Civil way: 11 April 2025

11 April 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8112 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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Whiplash mini-rise; discrimination bands up; apologies OK; wrong defendant blues; non-binary name change.

LAWBITES

182 and counting Poor old CPR PD 51R on the online civil money claims pilot. They just won’t leave it alone. CPR update 182, in force from 20 March 2025, amends further. Don’t waste time reading it and get on with earning some money. It introduces the ability of a litigant in person to make a general application just like you legal representatives. There is also some playing around with words.

Whiplash cash revisited The heralded inflationary whiplash tariff band increases (see ‘Civil way’, 174 NLJ 8098, p15) will apply to accidents occurring on or after 31 May 2025. The Whiplash Injury (Amendment) Regulations 2025 were laid last month.

Stopgap for consumers The legislation now made that, among other things, transitionally continues Part 4A of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1277) (consumers’ rights of redress—see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 28 March 2025, p14) is the Digital Markets,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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