The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Rules make the following amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR)—

• a substitution of rule 3.12(1), so that in addition to not applying to multi-track cases commenced on or after 1^st April 2013 in the Admiralty and Commercial Courts, Section II of Part 3 of the CPR and Practice Direction 3E will also not apply to—

• such multi-track cases commenced on or after 1^st April 2013 in the Chancery Division as the Chancellor of the High Court may direct; and

• such multi-track cases commenced on or after 1^st April 2013 in the Technology and Construction Court and the Mercantile Court as the President of the Queen’s Bench Division may direct; and

• a substitution of rule 44.3(7), so that paragraphs (2)(a) and (5) of that rule will not apply to costs incurred in respect of work done before 1^st April 2013, as well as not applying to cases commenced before that date.