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JUST A SLIP
Part 1 The referral to a judge or legal adviser of a request for the amendment of a half-baked perfected order will cause stress. ‘I regret the judge is in boxwork arrears and has to attend to their pension litigation.’ Slip rule amendments will generally be referred up. But the new FPR PD 29D now hiding under court staff desks or (where working remotely) beds, enables a court officer to amend without referral where staff cock-up, obvious typographical error, desirability of improving format (but not numbering) and, so long as the correct details can be verified from the court file etc, where misstatement as to venue of hearing, date of order, identification of legal representatives and date of future hearing. Send in a copy of the PD with your amendment request. Spell-check your communication.
Part 2 Rip up SI 2021/1029 on the new schedule 10 to the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ,
