AT THE COUNTY COURT
Advocate: If it pleases, judge, may I direct your attention to the problems with Royal Mail postal deliveries at ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 3 February 2023, p16 and how that impacts on what the CPR says about deemed service?
Judge: I would rather not. This court only looks at the usual law reports on Supreme Court decisions.
Advocate: So be it, but if I might trespass on…
Judge: Eternity?
Advocate: No, the next 20 cases in your morning list. I submit that under CPR 6.3 on service of the claim form within the jurisdiction, Royal Mail can no longer be regarded as a service that provides for first-class postal delivery on the next business day. For this purpose, I submit that implies it must achieve it. There has been widely reported anecdotal evidence in the media of the most hideous delays in postal deliveries and of parcels being prioritised over letters. Royal Mail flatly denies to ‘Civil
