The Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the Ministry of Justice came in to force in October 2023. We are now in February 2024 and the MOJ after a consultation have made some significant amendments to those rules.

Join Senior Fellows Brett Dixon, APIL Secretary, and John McQuater, APIL Immediate Past President for a more detailed look at what the latest set of rule changes mean for you and your business as well as a look at tactics to consider:

• How are the latest rule changes structured?
  • Understanding the different methods for making rules and why that is important
  • What other sources of information will be helpful?
     
• Is that it for now and what other changes may be in the pipeline
  • Civil Justice Council pre-action protocol reviews
  • Developments around ADR
  • Lower value clinical negligence fixed recoverable costs changes
     
• Levels of fixed recoverable costs – what is the latest on when and how they will be uprated
   
• Key changes
  • Inquests
  • Restoration of companies
  • Clinical negligence cases and the intermediate track
  • Contracting out of fixed costs
     
• Vulnerability
  • The continuing problem and the difficult argument
  • The impact of Santiago v MIB