Help - notes on using the CPR web pages

The CPR website includes:

• the current version of the Civil Procedure Rules including the latest set of additions and amendments
• the latest changes to be made to the rules (via Statutory Instruments)
• links to the Court Service CPR forms
• links to commentaries and consultation papers on the new rules

The web version is published simultaneously with the publication of the printed and CD-ROM versions. The site is hosted by OGC and is provided as a free service to Court users.

Navigating the CPR

The new CPR website has been re-designed to comply with W3C Priority Level 1 accessibility guidelines, and includes a more user-friendly navigation and an interface designed to promote ease of use. A series of links at the top and bottom of the screen comprises a navigation menu bar available throughout the site enabling users to access any part of the site at any time.

The top navigation bar consists of a three-tier header bar providing links to other related web pages and key reference points within the CPR website. The table below gives a summary of these links.

	The top header bar provides links to the LCD website home page and the CPR home page.
WHAT'S NEW?	The middle header bar consists of links to CPR web pages providing an overview of the site content as well as links to other related documents and web-sites.
FOREWORD	The third header bar (grey background) provides quick short-cuts to key elements of the current Civil Procedure Rules.

The top navigation bars consist of links to the following pages within the CPR website:

• Home page / What's New?: The What's New? page provides details of the latest Updates and New Statutory Instruments. Any news, important announcemnets and landmark dates pertaining to the CPR will be detailed here with links to external sites where relevant. Any CPR Homepage link will return you to this initial What's New? page.
• Updates: This page provides links to all the CPR updates, including the current amendments. These can be viewed online by clicking on the links down the left side of the page or complete document sets can be downloaded (HTML, Word or PDF formats).
• Current Versions: This page contains links to the current versions of the CPR, including the latest set of additions and amendments.
• Statutory Instruments: This page provides links to Statutory Instruments which relate to the new set of rules.
• Consultation: This page provides links to related Consultation Papers and Reports.
• Commentaries: This page contains links to websites which provide useful commentaries on the Civil Procedure Rules.
• Contact: This page provides useful contact information regarding CPR matters.
• Search: The Search facility can be used to help locate sections of the CPR that are most relevant to your query.



• Forword: Introduction to the CPR from the Lord Chancellor.
• Rules and Practice Directions: This page contains a menu of related Parts and Practice Directions. Each title is a hyperlink to the relevant full text. PDF and Word versions are also available by clicking on one of the icons on the right. A useful accelerator is provided at the top of the page to help you navigate to the Part numbers more easily.
• Schedule 1 - RSC: RSC (Schedule 1) Orders are listed by Order number. The Order number is a link to the full text.
• Schedule 2 - CCR: CCR (Schedule 2) Orders are listed by Order number. The Order number is a link to the full text.
• Pre-Action Protocols: Personal Injury Claims, Clinical Negligence (and their Annexes), and Practice Direction Protocols are listed here, with each title providing the link to the full text.
• Glossary: The glossary is a guide to the meaning of certain legal expressions as used in the Civil Procedure Rules, and in the law in general. PDF and Word versions are also available.
• Index: The index is currently only available in PDF and Word formats.
• Forms: PDF versions of the CPR Forms are provided by The Court Service. The forms can be filled electronically using Adobe Acrobat Reader software. See www.adobe.com for more information about viewing PDF documents.

The navigation bar at the bottom of each page consists of links to the following pages:

• LCD Home Page
• LCD Civil Matters Page
• CPR Home Page/What's New?
• CPR Search Facility

Key Features

• Amended Text: text is highlighted where new text is substituted for old. Where text has been deleted and no new text has been inserted, the old text is shown using 'strikethrough'. At the next Update amendments will be removed from the current files (but retained on the zipped archived Update) and the new amendments for the next Update will be highlighted.
• Complete document sets: If you need to refer to the previous rules you can download the complete document set in zipped format.
• Links: Within each section, links at the top of the page allow users to easily access the required information without having to scroll down the page.
• Top: When scrolling through a large document, clicking on the red triangle takes you to the top of the current page.
• Back: Clicking on the blue triangle anywhere in the CPR website returns you to your previous place in the text.
• Footnotes: Where footnote markers appear in the full text, they are hyperlinked to the footnote for ease of reference. Use the blue 'Back' triangle button to return to the full text.
• Full document sets: A complete set of zipped copies of the rules, correct as at each update from Day 1 in 1999, is available in HTML, pdf and Word versions.

Non-HTML Formats

This site provides documents in the following formats: (follow the links for more information about using and downloading free software)

• PDF - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Zip - requires software to unzip, e.g. WinZip
• Word - requires Microsoft software

On-going Developments

• Currently, the CPR forms page provides an index of CPR forms with a link to the relevant forms page on the Court Service website. We hope, soon, to have each form on the CPR index linked to the individual Court Service form, and to have a link to the index wherever a form is mentioned in a rule etc.
• From the 25th Update the CPR index will be fully HTML-linked.
• We will continue to respond to your comments. Please contact us at: web.comments@lcdhq.gsi.gov.uk