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21 January 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7963 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil Way: 21 January 2022

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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Clarke Willmott—Alexia Haines & Kelsey Wells

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Maguire Family Law—Jennifer Hudec, Ciara Florey, Alice Ferguson & Ruth Wynn

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Maguire Family Law announces partner promotion and new hires amid a record year for enquiries

NEWS
Defendants who make unsupported complaints about their lawyers risk losing legal aid while confiscation proceedings continue without representation
Lawyers advising Russian clients face different sanctions restrictions across the UK, EU and US, despite their shared objective of increasing pressure on Russia
Artificial intelligence does not demand a wholesale rewrite of liability law, argues an article challenging claims that new technology has created an accountability gap
Restrictions on workplace non-disclosure agreements could make settlements slower, more complex and more expensive when reforms expected in 2027 take effect
Private prosecutors face closer scrutiny under Crown Prosecution Service guidance designed to strengthen accountability and consistency when intervention is requested
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