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Civil way: 4 March 2022

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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Private client division announces five new partners

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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