Covid bites
Frozen upstairs The possession freezing CPR PD51Z as amended (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ 24 April 2020, p20; 8 May 2020, p24 and 22 May 2020, p17) catches appeals from possession orders that were extant when the stay came into effect, except to the Supreme Court which makes its own rules (hands up who has one). The Court of Appeal so held last week in London Borough of Hackney v Okoro [2020] EWCA Civ 681. Trespass orders may continue to be cursed. The Court of Appeal found it unnecessary to consider why the PD stayed enforcement as well as proceedings for possession.
Don’t bother The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/515), in force on 8 June 2020 with a life of one year, are the biggest disappointment of the decade. They introduce two standard fees for immigration (non-asylum) and asylum appeals which are dealt with online, as will now generally be the mandatory position.
Mann alive
There is a ‘Judge in charge of Live Services’.
