Civil justice lurches onward with characteristic eccentricity. In his latest Civil Way column, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, surveys a procedural landscape featuring 19-page bundle rules, digital possession claims, and rent laws he labels ‘bonkers’
Family practitioners face new permission hurdles for appeals and must master e-bundles—five days early, Arial preferred.
Meanwhile, the Renters’ Rights Act gives tenants a tactical gift: challenge a rent rise and enjoy a ‘honeymoon’ delay while tribunals buckle under volume. Gold predicts an ‘avalanche’ of claims.
Elsewhere, the Online Procedure Rule Committee promises something ‘simpler and groovier’ than the CPR, while digital assets quietly become a new class of litigable property. Costs creep up, base rates fall, and access portals expand. Reform marches on—but not always in a straight line.
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