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Civil way: 22 March 2019

22 March 2019
Issue: 7833 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Open the cage; master of the court: five days left; editing the experts; success fees unsuccessful.

CPR BINGO RESUMED

Update 104 You’ve asked for more This game was started in the last 'Civil Way' (see NLJ 8 March 2019, p17 ) with CPR update 105 and the costs bits of update 104. We continue it now as we call out the highlights of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (SI 2019/342) and the new and revised PDs which make up this swinging 104th update. Changes come into force on 6 April 2019.

Come in and watch Judges have nothing to hide and if the litigants want to spend their money warring in tune with the rules of evidence and the CPR then let the nation be fully in on it. Civil justice is going entirely public. Well most of it. PD 39A on miscellaneous provisions relating to proceedings is scrapped and a revamped Part 39 takes over. The general rule remains that a hearing—and that is redefined to embrace a hearing

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Private client division announces five new partners

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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