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07 March 2019
Issue: 7831 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 8 March 2019

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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson appoints Vicky Tomlinson as Head of Independent Health and Care

DWF—five appointments

DWF—five appointments

DWF further strengthens major injury and casualty offering with new partner and four directors from DAC Beachcroft

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis strengthens Grimsby child care team

NEWS
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
Arbitration may be private, but its confidentiality is no impenetrable shield. Writing in NLJ this week, James Glaysher of Kingsley Napley examines when courts will permit arbitral material to surface in open litigation
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

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