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Civil way: 8 March 2019

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07 March 2019
Issue: 7831 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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New CPR updates; pleading shorthand blessed; week’s pay fattened up; (no) time to pay.

CPR BINGO

Take your seats for the latest CPR updates. We will call them out of numerical order as the higher numbered update has had an earlier birth.

Update 105 Electronically alive The electronic working pilot scheme under PD 51O - this update is exclusively devoted to it- and which has been operating since 16 November 2015 and was extended to the QBD on 1 January 2019 (see ‘Civil way’, 168 NLJ 7811, p15), has been further extended from 25 February 2019 to the out of London Business and Property Court centres in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle. From 30 April 2019, professional users will be required to issue all new proceedings by electronic filing through CE-File. For more, if you must, see the Senior Master’s practice note of 12 February 2019. Oh for the days of the penny post and a packet of 20 Woodbines.

Update 104 Anything but a bore This update incorporates

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