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– Tuesday, 24 September 2024 – 4pm to 5pm
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– Tuesday, 8 October 2024 – 4pm to 5pm
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The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2024 come into force on 1 October 2024 and I will look at these further in due course.
The Statutory Instrument is implemented by the 171st Practice Direction update.
Alternate Dispute Resolution
Various Civil Procedure Rules are amended to promote the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution following the decision of the Court of Appeal in
Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416.
Judicial Titles
CPR 2 and other rules are amended to adjust the definition of Judge to provide consistency of language and remove unnecessary distinctions between different levels of Judge; Masters and District Judges will be brought with in the definition of Judge.
Appeals
The new CPR 52.3B will provide for a 28-day deadline running from the date of the decision to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Court of Appeal will be able to extend that time period.
I wrote this up in
Contempt Proceedings
CPR 81.4 is amended to add wording requiring a committal application to warn a party of the risk of the court drawing adverse inferences from the exercise of the right to silence, following the Court of Appeal decision in
Inplayer Limited and Another v Thorogood [2014] EWCA Civ 1511.
Band Assignment
CPR 26.15 dealing with band assignment within the Fast Track is amended with Table 1 – Complexity Band 3 (e) distinguishing more clearly between other claims for a sum of money from defended debt claims in Complexity Band 1 (b).
Case Management Powers
CPR 3 – Court’s Case Management Powers – and CPR 44 – General Rules about Costs – are amended to provide that where a claim a struck out under CPR 3.7A1 (Sanctions for non-payment of the trial fee), the claimant will be liable for the defendant’s costs in accordance with CPR 44.9(1), that is cases where costs orders are deemed to be made, which is amended to provide that where the claim is one to which CPR 27 – The Small Claims Track – applies, or CPR 45 – Fixed Recoverable Costs would otherwise apply, the costs shall be determined in accordance with those costs rules.
Other Matters
The Electronic Working Pilot Scheme (PD 510) is extended by one year until 1 November 2025.
Practice Direction 29.4.10(9) in the Multi Track Practice Direction replaces the words “in such cases as the court thinks appropriate, the court may give Directions requiring the parties to consider ADR”; with
“Ordering or encouraging the parties to engage in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)”
Practice Direction 45 – Fixed Costs
This is the major change and I have a separate article on this point, but briefly, a new Table 17 is inserted under CPR 45.64: Determination where parties agree on all issues except costs, and a new Precedent U (Fixed Costs Determination: CPR 45.63 and CPR 45.64).
