The Statutory Instrument (SI) is published via the legislation website and the online rules will be updated in due course. CIVIL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT No.3) RULES 2023 AND THE 157th & 158th PRACTICE DIRECTION UPDATES AND THE PRE-ACTION PROTOCOL UPDATE Read more on this, including how to submit your comments on GOV.UK. Your views are being sought on issues relating to the new FRC regime in civil cases. The main suite of amendments for this were included in The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2023 and associated 158 th PD Update.ġ59th PD Making document (PDF) Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC): a further consultation This amendment is consequential on the establishment of the CNBC, which will handle the business previously allocated to the CCMCC and the County Court Business Centre. In addition, an update amendment is made to replace a reference to the CCMCC (County Court Money Claims Centre) with a reference to the CNBC (Civil National Business Centre).Certificate of Service functionality to be introduced in to the DCP, along with related amendments in relation to digital notices of change of legal representative.The following amendments are made to PD 51ZB for the Damages Claims Portal (DCP) which enable: This allows a newly appointed legal representative to assign themselves to a claim to replace the former legal representative of a party in a case. an online ‘Notice of Change of legal representative’ to be introduced into OCMC.The following amendment is made to PD 51R for Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) which enables: It provides a suite of amendments to two pilot Practice Directions (PD), namely PD 51R the Online Civil Money Claims Pilot and PD 51ZB the Damages Claims Pilot. The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 159 th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules, which came into force at 11am on19 th September 2023. Supports the judiciary and legal representatives’ navigation of the digital file by creating a categorised chronological view and audit history of all documents filed or generated by the court.ġ60th PD Making Document (PDF) 159th PRACTICE DIRECTION UPDATE.Ability for legal representatives to confirm if the case is ready for trial and to update the court of any changes or additional support required by their clients (or legal rep) e.g., where a client needs translator or special measures to ensure a successful hearing and use of judicial time.This saves judicial time by this action being taken at the earliest opportunity. Supports the functionality to immediately dismiss cases where the hearing fee payment has not been made within the prescribed timescales.Expansion of the legal representatives’ ‘self-service’, enabling them to (i) directly upload evidence/documents, in compliance with judicial orders, to the digital case file and (ii) review evidence/documents as soon as they are uploaded by the other party.The PD Update also contains a series of clarificatory and tidying up amendments to the following paragraphs of PD 51ZB: 8.1, 8.3A, 8.4 and 8.7 (the last being renumbered as Section 8A).Īlongside the PD Update and the IT features it enables, the following IT features will be introduced into both Online Civil Money Claims and the Damages Claims Portal (without the need for amendment to either PD 51R – Online Civil Money Claims or PD 51ZB – Damages Claims Portal): the timely auto-generation of a ‘trial bundle’ to be used by the judge and legally represented parties at the trial. The following amendments are made to PD 51ZB for the Damages Claims Portal (DCP) which enable: This contains a suite of amendments to Practice Direction 51ZB, the Damages Claims Pilot which came into force at 11am on 16 th November 2023. The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 160 th Practice Direction Update.
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