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Jacksonmania: Civil way

01 March 2013
Issue: 7550 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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We thought we would do Jackson, carrying on where we left off...

We thought we would do Jackson, carrying on where we left off (see "Civil way"), which should help you decide whether or not to emigrate. The PDs have been made and a late change on costs budgeting (see below) means that a further statutory instrument and PD are in the pipeline. References to rule numbers are those contained in the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/262) (AR) unless otherwise indicated.

JACKSON STRIKE III: docs on the table

Disclosure can generate disproportionate costs and an obese bundle. The problem is tackled by the AR (r 11). We will come to multi-tracks other than claims for personal injuries in a moment. For everything else—fast tracks and non-personal injuries multi-tracks—the default position continues to be for standard disclosure with the parties entitled to agree or the court empowered to order that disclosure be dispensed with or standard disclosure be limited.

Here is the new stuff. For the multi-tracks other than personal injuries

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
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Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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