Civil way: 6 October 2023

THE NOT FRC CORNER

Let’s not forget that there is much more to life than fixed recoverable costs. Well, a little more. The Civil Procedure (Amendment No 3) Rules 2023 (SI 2023/788) and CPR PD update 158 introduced on 1 October 2023 an abundance of other stuff which has nothing to do with costs but which might be perceived by the cynical as a lot about nothing. There’s gender neutralising, clarifying, rearranging, simplifying and tinkering. In short, making sure that your practice books become hopelessly out of date. In fact, upon studying CPR 22.1 and PD22 para 1.2 you might be momentarily fooled, like me, into excitement at the removal of a response to an order to provide further information in compliance with an order, from the list of documents that must be verified by a statement of truth. Alas, the reference to the response has gone because its is covered by the inclusion of statement of case.

Showing contempt