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03 March 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8015 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR , Family
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Civil way: 3 March 2023

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FAMILY LAWYERS KEEP OUT

You have already been treated to qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS), the star of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023, SI 2023/105 (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 17 February 2023, p15). Now, the best of the rest and the juiciest of the 153rd CPR update. Everything featured comes in on 6 April 2023.

Double vision Service by email in the UK is covered by CPR PD 6A4. This is amended to provide that where a party has indicated that service by email must be effected by sending a document to multiple addresses, it may be effected by sending it to any two of the addresses identified. The amendment has been rapidly inspired by the decision in R (on the application of Tax Returned Ltd) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2022] EWHC 2515 (Admin), in which Mrs Justice Heather Williams ruled that where more than one address for service was

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