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Civil way: 28 February 2020

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