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Civil way: 22 March 2019

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22 March 2019
Issue: 7833 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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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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Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
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Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
NLJ this week: The expanding remit of national security law
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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