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Civil way: 29 March & 5 April 2024

29 March 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8065 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Latest FPR update; CPR update worth a miss; Supreme junior advocacy; Medway goes to Maidstone

FIRST FOR FAMILY

FPR update no 1 of 2024 is here (published after much was claimed to be already in force, but, as with cuckolded spouses, the punters can be the last to know). This set me thinking that if the FPR update titles were given a similar appellation to the CPR—this would mean, for example ‘120th Practice Direction update’—there would be a saving of four characters and, hence, an economy in space, cartridge ink, typing, etc, and maybe the plan announced with the spring budget to demote HMCTS mail to second-class postage, so that it never actually arrives, could be ditched. Discuss.

As already reported (see ‘Civil

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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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