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Civil way: 4 March 2022

04 March 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7969 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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140 and still counting; New family pilot; DJs given some work; Kid jabs

CPR UPDATES HIT 140

Congratulations on your 140th and may you continue to unsettle the judiciary, practitioners, practice and procedure books and supplements, law lecturers, law students, legal slaves and court staff with your constant additions, revisions, amendments, substitutions, pilots, protocols and homages to the internet until a ripe old age. We love you. Here’s the first part of our look at the 140th job taking in a raft of PD amendments and a couple of new PDs along with the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022 (SI 2022/101)—the rule references in parenthesis are to these. The provisions featured come into force on 6 April 2022.

Small but not beautiful There is an increase in the small claims track limit for non-road traffic accident personal injury claims from £1,000 to £1,500 so long as the overall value of the claim does not exceed £10,000 (rule 9). This is an inflationary increase and was threatened when the nation was limbering

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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