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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

Flint Bishop—Charlotte Harris

Flint Bishop—Charlotte Harris

Sheffield expansion continues with appointment of commercial property partner

Browne Jacobson—Paul Duggan

Browne Jacobson—Paul Duggan

Browne Jacobson strengthens banking and finance practice with latest partner appointment Paul Duggan

Ward Hadaway—Chris Piggott

Ward Hadaway—Chris Piggott

Employment partner joins Ward Hadaway

NEWS
The Law Society RFC Festival of Sport returns next month, bringing together legal and financial services professionals for one of the sector’s largest annual sporting events
Legal aid deserts leave almost one in four without adequate access to justice
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned solicitors and law firms that using artificial intelligence does not alter their professional obligations, amid concerns over inaccurate legal material and client confidentiality
From forgotten interest claims to case-management appeals, a string of procedural developments offers useful—and occasionally cautionary—lessons for practitioners

Jonathan Fisher KC highlights that it now accounts for around 40% of criminal offences, with roughly 70% involving technology, and argues that the UK cannot simply prosecute its way out of the problem. Detection, investigation and prosecution all require improvement, while different fraud types demand tailored responses.

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