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[This page was last updated on 21 October 2002]

What's New?

- Updates [NEW]
- Small Claims pilot scheme - amendment to Practice Direction 27B
- Problems accessing court forms?
- Word version no longer available
- Further Findings - a second evaluation of the civil justice reforms
- Feedback

Updates

- 29th Update Supplement 2 - further amendments to Part 75, which came into force on 1st October 2002. PD27B and PD52 amendments come into force on 2 December 2002. For details of changes please see the Notes to Accompany [NEW]

- 29th Update - with the exception of the new Part 75 (Traffic Enforcement) and its accompanying Practice Direction which came into force on 1 October, and the revocation of CCR Order 48B which was also effective from that date, all other changes come into force on Monday, 2 December 2002. For details of changes please see the Notes to Accompany.

- 30th Update - the next update will be published early in the New Year.

Pilot Scheme for Small Claims - amendment to Practice Directions 27B

Lord Justice May, having been authorised by the Lord Chancellor under section 5 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 to make vary or revoke Civil Procedure Rule Practice Directions for the county courts, has issued an amendment to PD 27B.

The amendment extends the pilot scheme for Small Claims from 7 October to 31 December 2002. Under paragraph 1.1: for "7th October 2002" substitute "31st December 2002".

The amendment took effect from Tuesday, 8 October 2002. The purpose of the Small Claims pilot scheme is to provide for allocation to the small claims track without the need for the court to serve allocation questionnaires or to make an order dispensing with them.

Problems with court forms

Many users are experiencing problems accessing court forms.

The Court Service is responsible for the provision of the forms (not LCD) and their web team is currently working to rectify the problem. In the meantime, if you have any comments or observations about the availability of court forms, please e-mail Garry Bucci at the Court Service web team.

The Court Service and we offer our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused, but assure you that folk are working hard to rectify the matter as quickly as possible.

Removal of the Word version

As a result of problems we experienced at the publication of the 27th update, and in the interests of increasing accuracy, we have removed the Word version of the CPR which is now available in html, pdf, CD-ROM and printed versions.

On advising users in July of our intention to remove the Word version, we only received five requests to retain it. However, whilst the html, pdf, CD-ROM and printed versions of the rules are managed on a single tSO database, the Word version was managed separately; it required additional tSO resources to prepare the Word version and the Department had to proof-read two sets of the same material at every update. In the event this proved to be beyond our resources and resulted in potential inaccuracies.

Further Findings - a second evaluation of the civil justice reforms

The Department recently presented Further Findings on the effects of the civil justice reforms introduced in April 1999. Early findings based upon evidence obtained over the first two years were presented in the paper 'Emerging Findings' published in March 2001: this paper builds on that evidence.

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