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14/10/2016
The Ministry of Justice is reconsidering planned reforms to whiplash claims and will be putting forward fresh proposals.
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07/10/2016
New Part 52 and Practice Directions. The 86th Update to the Civil Procedure Rules came in to force on 3 October 2016.
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30/09/2016
The County Court at Tunbridge Wells is closing.
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23/09/2016
Helen Marley, advocate on the Southwestern Circuit, considers the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in Mortgage Express v Lambert [2016] EWCA Civ 555
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16/09/2016
In his recent judgment in Leigh Ravenscroft v. Canal and River Trust [2016] EWHC 2282 (Ch), Chief Master Marsh considered whether an individual should be entitled to act as McKenzie Friend for the Claimant and if so, whether the McKenzie Friend should then be granted permission to conduct litigation and act as their advocate.
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09/09/2016
The County Court at Rotherham officially closed on the 2nd September 2016, with its work being transferred to Sheffield.
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02/09/2016
In HHJ Lopez’s recently published judgment in Raymond Prince v. Egbert H Taylor & Company Limited (2016), he considered whether a Claimant should be estopped from asserting that Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting rules (QOCS) applied to his claim because his solicitors had wrongly represented to the Defendants that a pre-commencement funding arrangement was in place.
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26/08/2016
The County Court hearing centres in Bridgend and Neath and Port Talbot have now closed.
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22/08/2016
Bence Leb, advocate on the Southeastern Circuit, provides a report of the recent decision in Jamadar v Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust EWCA [2016] Civ 21 July 2016
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