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Civil way: 30 June 2023

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30 June 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8031 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Third-class service; Scissors special; Site owners fazed; Up the PI damages; New employment law; Snoozing with the FPRs

AT THE COUNTY COURT

Advocate: If it pleases, judge, may I direct your attention to the problems with Royal Mail postal deliveries at ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 3 February 2023, p16 and how that impacts on what the CPR says about deemed service?

Judge: I would rather not. This court only looks at the usual law reports on Supreme Court decisions.

Advocate: So be it, but if I might trespass on…

Judge: Eternity?

Advocate: No, the next 20 cases in your morning list. I submit that under CPR 6.3 on service of the claim form within the jurisdiction, Royal Mail can no longer be regarded as a service that provides for first-class postal delivery on the next business day. For this purpose, I submit that implies it must achieve it. There has been widely reported anecdotal evidence in the media of the most hideous delays in postal deliveries and of parcels being prioritised

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