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182 and counting Poor old CPR PD 51R on the online civil money claims pilot. They just won’t leave it alone. CPR update 182, in force from 20 March 2025, amends further. Don’t waste time reading it and get on with earning some money. It introduces the ability of a litigant in person to make a general application just like you legal representatives. There is also some playing around with words.
Whiplash cash revisited The heralded inflationary whiplash tariff band increases (see ‘Civil way’, 174 NLJ 8098, p15) will apply to accidents occurring on or after 31 May 2025. The Whiplash Injury (Amendment) Regulations 2025 were laid last month.
Stopgap for consumers The legislation now made that, among other things, transitionally continues Part 4A of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1277) (consumers’ rights of redress—see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 28 March 2025, p14) is the Digital Markets,
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