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31 October 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8137 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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Civil way: 31 October 2025

The N510: all you need to know; aim High; look, no witness!; interest on VAT.

TOO LATE FOR THE N510

Thou shalt give thanks for and honour form N510. Eh? It is the form under CPR 6.33 (and 6.32) which is to be filed with and accompany service of a claim form out of the jurisdiction without permission. It contains a statement of the grounds on which the claimant is entitled to serve out of the jurisdiction. Direct access counsel Patrick Boch’s attempts to rubbish the beloved N510 in Robertson v Google LLC [2025] EWCA Civ 1262—unimportant with just one box that had to be ticked; did not have to be properly completed in order to effect valid service; and had no practical implication or importance—did not go down well with Lord Justice Coulson. He and his colleagues are among members of the N510 Fan Club and regard it as very important.

The difficulty for the claimant in Robertson was that he needed an N510, and though

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