Civil way: 15 April 2016

The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016 (SI 2016/234) (the AR), a raft of PD changes and a bellyful of forms all masquerade as the 83rd CPR update and came into force on 6 April 2016. The update is more earth moving than usual.

Costs budgets You will find that these budgeting changes are rejoicing rather than resigning events but they only apply to proceedings commenced on or after 6 April 2016. The AR on multi-track costs management now effectively forbid completion of anything but the first page summary of precedent H where the value of the claim as stated on the claim form is less than £50,000 (so don’t certify the value at not exceeding £50,000 unless you suffer from costs managementitis). As before, you stick to the first page if budgeted costs do not exceed £25,000. Costs management is now disapplied not only where the court otherwise orders (don’t