{"id":213,"date":"2015-07-28T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/?p=213"},"modified":"2015-07-28T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T10:39:09","slug":"important-amendments-to-cpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Important amendments to CPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Gordon Exall for spotting\u00a0The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2015 which were laid before Parliament on 24 July. The SI can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/1569\/pdfs\/uksi_20151569_en.pdf.\" target=\"_blank\">www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/1569\/pdfs\/uksi_20151569_en.pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The explanatory notes are copied here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">&#8220;These Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998\/3132) by\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>amending rule 3.1 (court\u2019s general powers of management) to make it clear that the court\u2019s powers include hearing an Early Neutral Evaluation;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0inserting a new rule 3.1A making provision for the way in which the court is to approach case management in a case where at least one of the parties is unrepresented;<\/li>\n<li>inserting in Part 5 a cross-reference to provisions which disapply, or apply with modifications, provisions in that Part about access to court documents;<\/li>\n<li>amending rule 7.4 to ensure that the claimant not only serves particulars of claim on the defendant, but also files them;<\/li>\n<li>amending rule 47.6 to alter requirements for the commencement of detailed assessment proceedings;<\/li>\n<li>inserting a new rule 52.15B covering appeals in planning statutory reviews; and<\/li>\n<li>inserting a new Part 63A to introduce a new specialist list called the Financial List, to handle the more complex and important financial markets cases.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Should you have any costs queries, contact us on 01900 385 285 or email <a href=\"mailto:Richard.jack@westlakeslegal.co.uk\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Richard.jack@westlakeslegal.co.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Gordon Exall for spotting\u00a0The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2015 which were laid before Parliament on 24 July. The SI can be found here: www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/1569\/pdfs\/uksi_20151569_en.pdf. The explanatory notes are copied here: &#8220;These Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998\/3132) by\u2014 amending rule 3.1 (court\u2019s general powers of management) to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Important amendments to CPR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-detailed-assessment","tag-provisional-assessment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlakeslegal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}