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[This page was last updated on 3 December 2001]

What's New?

- Updates
- The new CPR format
- LCD Consultation Paper: General Pre-Action Protocol
- Hong Kong Consultative Paper: civil rules and procedures of the High Court
- Judicial Review: proposed Pre-action Protocol - Response to consultation
- Court Guides

Updates

- 25th Update - the 25th Update comes into force on several different dates as indicated on the "Notes to Accompany" page.
- 26th Update - will be published on 21 or 28 January. Watch this space.

The new CPR format

Feedback indicates that users approve of the new-style site which is pleasing. You will now find that the Forms index page a tad more user-friendly as you can now link directly to the relevant form on the Court Service website.

Further details about the new CPR site are available in the Help page.

If you have any comments please let us know: web.comments@lcdhq.gsi.gov.uk

LCD Consultation Paper

We are consulting on the principle of a General Pre-Action Protocol. The General Protocol may be used in cases where an approved Protocol does not exist. There are at present five approved Protocols: Clinical Disputes; Personal Injury; Defamation; Construction and Engineering Disputes; and Professional Negligence. As well as these five Protocols there are other Pre-action Protocols in development by various working groups. Once the General Protocol is in place some of these may become unnecessary.

Consultation ends on 31 January 2002.

Hong Kong Consultation Paper

The Chief Justice of Hong Kong appointed a Working Party in February 2000 to review the civil rules and procedures of the High Court. The Working Party has now published the Interim Report and Consultative Paper for public comment and feedback.

Consultation ends on 30 April 2002.

Judicial Review: proposed Pre-action Protocol - Response to consultation

The post-consultation report for the consultation paper Judicial Review: Proposed pre-action protocol was published on 31 October 2001.

Court Guides

Court guides for the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, Queen's Bench Division and Mercantile Courts are available on the Forms page. We shall try and give them a home of their own in due course.

Please note - our website service is provided as a convenience to court users: the definitive versions are the printed or CD-ROM versions published by The Stationery Office.

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