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Civil way: 30 June 2023

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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NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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