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13 December 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8098 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 13 December 2024

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Whiplashes stay painful; PI discount rate gets positive; bailiff dress code; all about Richard; Supreme Court success rates; the Insolvency Battle; domestic abuse newcomer; enforcing PP arrears.

WHIPLASH CASH

The Lord Chancellor’s review of the Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/642) (see ‘Civil way’, 171 NLJ 7924, p15) has come up with just one intended change which, following consultation with the Lady Chief Justice, will lead to subordinate legislation. The change is an inflationary-only tariff uplift to account for Consumer Price Index inflation during 2021-24 and to build in a three-year buffer to reflect forecasted inflation up to 2027. This will lead to a 14-15% increase in each band. Claimants need not bother to postpone making a claim as the increases will only impact those accidents which occur on or after the amended regulations come into force. And if you feel aggrieved at the review’s outcome, kick yourself (only mildly, to keep the bruising within the small claims track) for not having responded

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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NEWS
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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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