Damages to eyesight; PI 6.56% uplift; Onward online for divorce; Wasted exclusion clause
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More risk to your eyesight as legal representatives are mandated to issue online for damages only claims in the county court—and not just for personal injury—as from 4 April 2022 under CPR PD 51ZB. LiPs can wipe the smile off their faces: HMCTS will be after them eventually. A 14-day grace period, extended to 28 days, for practitioners who had respect for their health and issued on paper has expired. Ignoring the PD now will lead to paperwork being bounced back unissued where the sin is spotted or proceedings struck out when a procedural judge, awaiting an ophthalmic appointment for stronger lenses, picks up on non-compliance.
There could be a way out. Throwing in a prayer for an injunction to restrain the defendant from inflicting any further loss on the claimant would be both ingenious and hazardous. Expressly excluded, among others, are claims not conducted in English (which could catch quite a lot of statements of case I have seen in my time); those under PD 27B
