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04 March 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7969 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 4 March 2022

140 and still counting; New family pilot; DJs given some work; Kid jabs

CPR UPDATES HIT 140

Congratulations on your 140th and may you continue to unsettle the judiciary, practitioners, practice and procedure books and supplements, law lecturers, law students, legal slaves and court staff with your constant additions, revisions, amendments, substitutions, pilots, protocols and homages to the internet until a ripe old age. We love you. Here’s the first part of our look at the 140th job taking in a raft of PD amendments and a couple of new PDs along with the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022 (SI 2022/101)—the rule references in parenthesis are to these. The provisions featured come into force on 6 April 2022.

Small but not beautiful There is an increase in the small claims track limit for non-road traffic accident personal injury claims from £1,000 to £1,500 so long as the overall value of the claim does not exceed £10,000 (rule 9). This is an inflationary increase and was threatened when the nation

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of litigation and dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
Contract damages are usually assessed at the date of breach—but not always. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Gascoigne, knowledge lawyer at LexisNexis, examines the growing body of cases where courts have allowed later events to reshape compensation
The Supreme Court has restored ‘doctrinal coherence’ to unfair prejudice litigation, writes Natalie Quinlivan, partner at Fieldfisher LLP, in this week' NLJ
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts
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