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Civil Way: 21 January 2022

21 January 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7963 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Possessions and Covid; More inquest legal aid; New contempt forms; Possession defence test; Dissolved companies caught

WHILE YOU WEREN’T LOOKING

Possessed! No mercy for housing practitioners and their clients. The temporary coronavirus residential possession PD 55C whose life was extended to 30 November 2021 has not quite fully lapsed as expected. CPR update 137 has seen to that in continuing the PD in relation to all claims issued before 1 December 2021 with no cut-off date as yet and the requirement for claimants to provide notices with the claim form and at the hearing about their knowledge of the effect of the pandemic on the defendant (see the PD at paras 6.1 and 6.2) until 30 June 2022.

Cracks in person The 138th CPR update burst into force at 8.00 am on 8 December 2021 and you never noticed. It introduces amendments to PD 51R and that is about the online civil money claims pilot which you will never hear about unless you drink with LiPs. The pilot is open

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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