The 57th CPR update was effective (well, almost all of it) on 1 October 2011, incorporating the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/1979)...
VARIETY OF THE 57th
The 57th CPR update was effective (well, almost all of it) on 1 October 2011, incorporating the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/1979) (see NLJ 2 September 2011, p 1177 on the major Pt 36 Carver reversal change) and effecting PD revisions.
Litigants in the money
The hourly allowance which a successful litigant in person can recover for time reasonably spent on his case where he does not seek to prove or cannot prove financial loss (see rr 46.3(5)(b) and 48.6(4)) jumps from £9.25 to £18 under the Costs PD para 52.4. Given that he can also recover payments reasonably made by him for legal services relating to the case and other disbursements which would have been allowed if made by a legal representative, the moral is to treat him seriously as an opponent.
Small claims: bigger Xs
Advice to slog it out on the small
