NLJ this week: Pothole in the grass! Planning fee hike! CPR Pt23!

Gold covers disclosure of electronic documents in family proceedings as well as the missing letter that tarnished the Royal Mail’s reputation among judges and court staff.

Mountain bikes and unexpected potholes don’t mix, apparently, resulting in a complex vertebra fracture for an unfortunate rider who had to give up his job as a result, but was the council to blame? What made this case unusual is that the pothole was on the grass verge next to the road.

Also in Civil way caselaw this week, Gold looks at Riniker v Al-Turk, a case with a ‘tangled background’ which ‘produces some material which could get you off the hook with an imperfect CPR Pt 23 application’.