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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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Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson appoints Vicky Tomlinson as Head of Independent Health and Care

DWF—five appointments

DWF—five appointments

DWF further strengthens major injury and casualty offering with new partner and four directors from DAC Beachcroft

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis strengthens Grimsby child care team

NEWS
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NLJ this week: Auditors tighten the disclosure screws
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
NLJ this week: Telecoms tenants caught in a legal gap
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’
NLJ this week: Due process holds the line

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

NLJ this week: Credit law’s regulatory reset
Consumer credit law is heading for its biggest shake-up in 50 years, with the Consumer Credit Act 1974 set to yield much of its detailed statutory machinery to FCA rules
NLJ this week: Employment law’s four-point check
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
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