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Civil way: 11 June 2021

11 June 2021 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7936 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice , CPR
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State your case!; the midnight count; up the workers; new family guidance; no bundle fun in Admin Court; look, no captain.

MAKING IT UP

It sometimes happens that one of the parties seeks to run a different case at trial from that pleaded. Gosh. Really. That in itself is unsatisfactory and can cause difficulties, as Nugee LJ observed in Satyam Enterprises Ltd v Burton and another [2021] EWCA Civ 287, [2021] All ER (D) 32 (Mar). As had recently been said in two other cases before the Court of Appeal,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

NEWS
The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
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
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