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10 March 2023
Categories: Legal News , CPR , Procedure & practice , Personal injury
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LNB NEWS: 155th Practice Direction update and pre-action protocol amendments approved

The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, has approved amendments to Practice Direction 27B, the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (the RTA Protocol), the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers’ Liability and Public Liability) Claims (the EL/PL Protocol) and the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims Below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents (the RTA Small Claims Protocol). 

Lexis®Library update: Amendments to Practice Direction 27B and the RTA Small Claims Protocol will come into force on 6 March 2023 whereas amendments to the RTA Protocol and the EL/PL Protocol came into force on 22 February 2023.

Approval of amendments to Practice Direction 27B is accessible here and approval of amendments to the protocols is accessible here.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 9 March 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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