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Civil way: 28 February 2025

28 February 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8106 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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REFRESHING THE CPR

I am worried. Are members of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee receiving sufficient sustenance? According to its recently published annual report for 2023–24, the Ministry of Justice provides them with refreshments when meetings are held in person but in lieu of them making a subsistence claim. There were seven in-person meetings for the report year and the cost of refreshments came to £824, which averaged out at around £118 a meeting. That would allow, say, £9 per head. However, my suspicion is that non-member attendees, principally civil servants, may also have been tucking in, which would reduce the allowance to £4 per head. If I can get into the open meeting scheduled for May 2025, I will report back on who is scoffing what. After all, this is the age of transparency, and information on judicial eating habits should be available to the public. Too much processed food could lead

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
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