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22 March 2019
Issue: 7833 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 22 March 2019

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Open the cage; master of the court: five days left; editing the experts; success fees unsuccessful.

CPR BINGO RESUMED

Update 104 You’ve asked for more This game was started in the last 'Civil Way' (see NLJ 8 March 2019, p17 ) with CPR update 105 and the costs bits of update 104. We continue it now as we call out the highlights of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (SI 2019/342) and the new and revised PDs which make up this swinging 104th update. Changes come into force on 6 April 2019.

Come in and watch Judges have nothing to hide and if the litigants want to spend their money warring in tune with the rules of evidence and the CPR then let the nation be fully in on it. Civil justice is going entirely public. Well most of it. PD 39A on miscellaneous provisions relating to proceedings is scrapped and a revamped Part 39 takes over. The general rule remains that a hearing—and that is redefined to embrace a hearing

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

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Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

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Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

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Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

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