19 September 2025 / Stephen Gold

Issue: 8131 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way

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Civil way: 19 September 2025

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Specials interest down; LPAs to cost more; canapes in Supreme Court; £24ph for LiPs

LAWBITES

Interest jerk The Bank of England base rate does not change without movement of the Court Funds Office’s (CFO) special account rate. That makes life tough for the sucker you charge with the job of calculating interest on personal injury specials. The latest base rate change means that as from 20 August 2025 the special account rate has dropped from 4.25% to 4.00%. The CFO basic rate was also down from 3.19% to 3.00%. If the sucker is not up to the job, see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 17 January 2025, p15.

Bloody hell ‘This House Believes that Matrimonialisation is a Load of B……s’. That is the motion to be debated later in the day of the Financial Remedies Conference on 16 October 2025. By then the earlier chair Mr Justice Peel and speaker Sir Nicholas Mostyn may have been handed a redacted programme and be safely out of the building.

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Civil way: 19 September 2025

© Copyright LexisNexis 2026. All Rights Reserved.

Issue: 8131 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way

Specials interest down; LPAs to cost more; canapes in Supreme Court; £24ph for LiPs

LAWBITES

Interest jerk The Bank of England base rate does not change without movement of the Court Funds Office’s (CFO) special account rate. That makes life tough for the sucker you charge with the job of calculating interest on personal injury specials. The latest base rate change means that as from 20 August 2025 the special account rate has dropped from 4.25% to 4.00%. The CFO basic rate was also down from 3.19% to 3.00%. If the sucker is not up to the job, see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 17 January 2025, p15.

Bloody hell ‘This House Believes that Matrimonialisation is a Load of B……s’. That is the motion to be debated later in the day of the Financial Remedies Conference on 16 October 2025. By then the earlier chair Mr Justice Peel and speaker Sir Nicholas Mostyn may have been handed a redacted programme and be safely out of the building.

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