Some criminal advocates only change their speeches to the jury and some family legal aid counsel can only afford to change their shirts once a year
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Some criminal advocates only change their speeches to the jury and some family legal aid counsel can only afford to change their shirts once a year. With the Civil Procedure Rules 1988 you get at least two annual changes which are reactive to the tiniest revision in legislation. Even the odd piece of punctuation may be improved upon. The 59th CPR update got going on 1 October 2012. It takes in the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2012 (SI 2012/2208) and with certain new rules the oh so carefully considered use of the word “will” instead of “must” occurs because the rules committee believes that imposing a notional duty on the court to perform its individual non-discretionary functions with a “must” is, in general, unnecessary and, arguably, misleading. So the updates are caring and we will soon set about devising some big celebration for the 60th update expected next April which will be
