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Jacksonmania: Civil way

01 March 2013
Issue: 7550 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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We thought we would do Jackson, carrying on where we left off...

We thought we would do Jackson, carrying on where we left off (see "Civil way"), which should help you decide whether or not to emigrate. The PDs have been made and a late change on costs budgeting (see below) means that a further statutory instrument and PD are in the pipeline. References to rule numbers are those contained in the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/262) (AR) unless otherwise indicated.

JACKSON STRIKE III: docs on the table

Disclosure can generate disproportionate costs and an obese bundle. The problem is tackled by the AR (r 11). We will come to multi-tracks other than claims for personal injuries in a moment. For everything else—fast tracks and non-personal injuries multi-tracks—the default position continues to be for standard disclosure with the parties entitled to agree or the court empowered to order that disclosure be dispensed with or standard disclosure be limited.

Here is the new stuff. For the multi-tracks other than personal injuries

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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
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
The ex-wife of a Russian billionaire has won her bid to bring her financial relief claim in London, in a unanimous Court of Appeal decision
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