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21 January 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7963 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil Way: 21 January 2022

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Possessions and Covid; More inquest legal aid; New contempt forms; Possession defence test; Dissolved companies caught

WHILE YOU WEREN’T LOOKING

Possessed! No mercy for housing practitioners and their clients. The temporary coronavirus residential possession PD 55C whose life was extended to 30 November 2021 has not quite fully lapsed as expected. CPR update 137 has seen to that in continuing the PD in relation to all claims issued before 1 December 2021 with no cut-off date as yet and the requirement for claimants to provide notices with the claim form and at the hearing about their knowledge of the effect of the pandemic on the defendant (see the PD at paras 6.1 and 6.2) until 30 June 2022.

Cracks in person The 138th CPR update burst into force at 8.00 am on 8 December 2021 and you never noticed. It introduces amendments to PD 51R and that is about the online civil money claims pilot which you will never hear about unless you drink with LiPs. The pilot is open for specified money claims not exceeding £10,000 by LiPs and

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