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The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007

Children in care

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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-03-16

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

These Rules make the following amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998—rule 19.9 is amended and new rules 19.9A to 19.9F are inserted as a result of new procedures for derivative claims under the Companies Act 2006;Part 21 is amended as a consequence of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to include provisions about ‘protected parties’ and ‘protected beneficiaries’, the appointment of a litigation friend for a protected party and the settlement or compromise of proceedings on behalf of a protected party;rules 2.1(2), 2.3(1), 6.6(1) and (2), 12.10(a)(i), 12.11(3), 14.1(4), 30.7, 32.13(3)(e), 36.9(2), 39.2(3)(d), 45.10(2)(c), 46.2(1)(c), 47.3(1)(c) and 48.5 are amended to reflect the amendments to Part 21;rules 46.2 and 46.3 are amended to make provision for the increase to the amount of fast track trial costs which the court may award where the fast track trial commences on or after 1st October 2007;rule 47.22 is amended to increase the time from 14 days to 21 days within which an appeal of a decision of an authorised court officer relating to detailed assessment of costs may be filed;a new rule 52.12A is inserted to make provision for third parties to apply for permission to file evidence or make representations at an appeal hearing in relation to statutory appeals;a new rule 52.18 is inserted to provide that an appeal from a decision of the Secretary of State under paragraph 16 of Schedule 15 to the Law of Property Act 1922 lies to the High Court;a new rule 52.19 is inserted to provide that an appeal from a decision of a tribunal referred to in section 11(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 lies to the High Court and that the tribunal may of its own initiative or at the request of a party to the proceedings state a case for the decision of the High Court;a new rule 52.20 is inserted to provide that an appeal from certain decisions of the Secretary of Statue under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 lies to the High Court;rules 65.1, 65.8, 65.9 and 65.10 have been amended and new rules 65.37 to 65.41 inserted as a consequence of sections 24 and 27 of the Police and Justice Act 2006;RSC Order 93, rules 4, 5, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18 and 19, Order 94, rules 4, 5, 8, 9, 12 and 13 and Order 95 rules 1, 4, 5 and 6 are revoked either because they have been incorporated into either the main body of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 or a practice direction supplementing the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 or because they are no longer relevant, as the case may be; andCCR Order 45 is revoked.