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NLJ this week: Rent, road traffic and a watery estate

28 May 2021
Issue: 7934 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , CPR , Personal injury
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Possession laws and coronavirus regulations have together knitted a jumble sale of dates, deadlines, notice periods and requirements. 

In this week’s Civil Way, former District Judge Stephen Gold sorts through the rules. Noting that ‘small personal injury road traffic claims go barmy on 31 May 2021’, he covers CPR updates.

Gold also reports how water damage on an estate in central London was to cost the right to buy lessees £72,000 each due to a historic lease until the courts found a way forward. Gold shines a light on all this and more, on p18

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