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11 August 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8037 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 11 August 2023

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A funny business; Dodgy service; Cleaner notaries; Latest FPR PD update

TAKEOVER NEWS

Talk of the Civil National Business Centre at Northampton, but not until 14 August 2023. It is then replacing the back-office units at Northampton’s County Court Business Centre and Salford’s County Court Money Claims Centre. Out with the cheese sandwiches. The move will affect where claims are started. It is presumed that the name of the merged centre was picked from a hat and designed to disguise from the world that it will have any connection with the law. The Civil Procedure (Amendment No 3) Rules 2023, SI 2023/788, effect a raft of name substitutions, and CPR PD update 158 follows suit.

TICKS & STUFF

The claim form is served out of time. What should the defendant do? Dispute the court’s jurisdiction by complying with CPR 11. That involves filing an acknowledgment of service and applying under the rule within 14 days of doing so for a no-jurisdiction declaration. In default, the defendant is treated as having accepted

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