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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

Latest CPR changes; latest FPR changes; new Official Solicitor form; new standard orders.

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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully

Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully

Anthony Collins hires two talented legal directors

Switalskis—five appointments

Switalskis—five appointments

Firm expands national abuse compensation team

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices

NEWS
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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