The Online Procedure Rules Committee consultation, launched last week and due to close on 15 January, covers the ‘basic general’ rules for online civil, family and tribunal proceedings, Sir Geoffrey said.
The online rules ‘will be far more simple and accessible than the current Civil Procedure Rules’, he said; for example, that parties have duties to ‘take all reasonable steps to settle their disputes’. View the draft rules here.
Sir Geoffrey, speaking at the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association conference last week, said the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, which will end ‘no fault evictions’ in May, ‘will undoubtedly create more contested possession cases than we have had hitherto’.
He said the ‘first iteration’ of the online platform for property and possession claims is expected in the late spring of 2026.
