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Civil way: 12 November 2021

10 November 2021 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7956 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Seconds out over statements; B&PC disclosure lite; Landlords at the double; Insolvency PD; Land Registry fees up

WITNESS STATEMENT PUNCH-UP

Factual witness statements in the Business and Property Courts (B&PC) are purgatory. Those aggrieved are giving serious consideration to the protest blockage of all accessways to the RCJ with copies of the Green Book and downloads of PD 57A and its statement of best practice glued to the ground.

Mansion Place Ltd v Fox Industrial Services Ltd [2021] EWHC 2747 (TCC) ought to discourage satellite litigation on compliance disputes. In this case, the three-day shorter trial building dispute was due to kick off on 18 October 2021. Four days earlier Mrs Justice O’Farrell and the rest of the cast were occupied for a one-day battle over compliance cross-applications which ended with some redactions here and some redactions there and an indication that costs should be in the case. Here’s the meat.

‘Give us a break’ Where non-compliance is alleged, the parties should attempt to reach an agreement. If not

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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