Business as usual; New liability for employers; Latest FPR PD update; Bankruptcy annulment; Mission for no commission
LAWBITES
How’s it going? The Civil National Business Centre whose responsibilities include the issue of paper claims and enforcement applications has had time to bed in. The latest published weekly performance figures for paper business show that the number of working days from lodgement to issue etc is 11 for a new claim. For an acknowledgment of service,29; before issuing a directions questionnaire on paper after filing of defence,18 and for then processing the filed questionnaire, 38; from receipt of an application for order or comment being typed, 46; for a new ‘Help with Fees’ application,10; and for a charging order application, 23 and drawing a final charging order, 21. For litigation practitioners’ time off recovering from stress,14 days. For litigants causing a disturbance while protesting at delays, conditional discharge.
Follow the leader Family Division liaison judges have been rehandled. They are now to be known as family presiding judges, if you please, and have been reappointed as such. No ceremony. The senior liaison
