header-logo header-logo

03 March 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8015 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR , Family
printer mail-detail

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

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
back-to-top-scroll