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Civil way: 24 February 2017

24 February 2017
Issue: 7735 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Vanishing claims; legal advisers get judgy; & managing incurred costs.

CPR RULES, OK!

Civil, family and insolvency procedure rules and practice directions are all in for a makeover. Here are some of the sexier changes from the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 (SI 2017/95) (CPAR 2017) and 88th CPR update which come into force on 6 April 2017, unless stated to the contrary. More next time.

The hearing is nearing The scheme for refund of the whole or part of the trial fee (which we used to call the hearing fee but which I must now call the trial fee and which you may continue to call the hearing fee unless in correspondence with the court or conversation with an anorak) is being scrapped. In return, the fee will not generally become payable until up to 28 days before the trial. The new scheme begins on 6 March 2017 in line with the Civil Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2016 (SI 2016/1191) (see “Civil way”, NLJ , 13 January 2017, p17) but will not affect

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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
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, 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
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
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
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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