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25 February 2016
Issue: 7688 / Categories: Legal News
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Time to meet the new improved Chancery Guide

The Chancery Guide has been significantly updated to take account of the Jackson reforms, Briggs review and introduction of e-filing.

The guide provides information about the conduct of litigation in the Chancery Division in the Rolls Building in London. Sir Terence Etherton, Chancellor of the High Court, said the Guide required updating due to the rapid pace of change in recent years.

New sections have been added to it to take account of specialist work such as bankruptcy and company proceedings, pensions and competition claims, and there is an extended section on litigants in person.

It sets out the criteria applied during the process of triage of cases.Other changes take account of costs management and other Jackson reforms, the Chancery Modernisation Review conducted by Lord Justice Briggs, removal of restrictions on the jurisdiction of Chancery Masters, shorter trials and flexible trials, and the introduction of CE-file and electronic filing.

Issue: 7688 / Categories: Legal News
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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