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Civil way: 3 October 2025

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03 October 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8133 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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CPR PD update plans; don’t mention the FDR; caring for Mother with pay; intestacy fights; loadsaguides.

TEN TO GO

The 190th CPR PD update which came into force on 16 September 2025 set me thinking about how we are going to celebrate the 200th update, which cannot be far off. Maybe a spoof job which abandons all online pilots (and applies from 11am five days earlier). My AI came up with a flashmob performance in the office law library. What of no190? I nearly forgot. The civil money claims pilot (PD 51R) expands post-allocation case progression and general applications features to all ‘county courts’. Also, a legally

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