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26 July 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8081 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 26 July 2024

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Updates reach 170; Shorter transcripts, please; Special account rate cut; Moor matrimonialisation

SLOW LEARNING

Before former minister Lord Bellamy KC removed the sandwich crumbs from his drawers, to make way for the lunches of Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, he managed to sign off the CPR’s 170th PD update, which came into force on 18 July 2024. It extends to 1 October 2025 the pilots for online civil money claims—around for seven years so they are beginning to get the hang of things—and damages claims. As to the former, the case progression and application features which have hitherto applied only in the early adopter courts are rolled out nationally, except for the county court at Birmingham, which must tantalisingly wait a bit longer.

MAKE IT SHORT

Try out this direction at your next case management conference and see whether you get your Green Book slapped. ‘The judgment of the trial judge shall be confined to no more than 2,000 folios.’ You see, the cost of obtaining a transcript of the judgment (essential

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

The 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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