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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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Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
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Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
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Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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