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26 February 2020 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7876 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 28 February 2020

CPR: latest dose; Rolls up for a party!

Time for an update

As threatened and if you can bear it, we bring you the latest CPR update which, for the numerate, is the 113th and completely whiplashless. All 113 amendments featured will come into force on 6 April 2020. Oh, and we throw in updates 114 and 115. The latter is devoted to the PD 51 video hearing pilot and in force on 2 March 2020.

Pleading credit Following consultation, post-accident vehicle hirers are put in their place with those credit hire list cloggers specially in mind. Amendments to PD 16, which might just lead to earlier settlements, tell them what is to go into their particulars of claim or counterclaim. For all hirers, there must be pleaded—and that includes relevant facts—the need for hire at the start and end of the hire period, what was the start and end of the period and its reasonableness, the hire rate and its reasonableness. And, for the credit hirers,

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NEWS
The Law Society RFC Festival of Sport returns next month, bringing together legal and financial services professionals for one of the sector’s largest annual sporting events
Legal aid deserts leave almost one in four without adequate access to justice
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned solicitors and law firms that using artificial intelligence does not alter their professional obligations, amid concerns over inaccurate legal material and client confidentiality
From forgotten interest claims to case-management appeals, a string of procedural developments offers useful—and occasionally cautionary—lessons for practitioners

Jonathan Fisher KC highlights that it now accounts for around 40% of criminal offences, with roughly 70% involving technology, and argues that the UK cannot simply prosecute its way out of the problem. Detection, investigation and prosecution all require improvement, while different fraud types demand tailored responses.

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