2013 No. 789 (L. 7)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales County Courts, England And Wales

The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 19971 to make rules of court under section 1 of that Act, after consulting in accordance with section 2(6)(a) of that Act, makes the following Rules:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

1

These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 and come into force on 30th April 2013.

2

In these Rules, a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 19982.

Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 19983

In Part 45, in rule 45.18—

a

in paragraph (5)(b), for “practices” substitute “practises”; and

b

in Table 6, in the right hand column—

i

for “400” substitute “200”; and

ii

for “800” substitute “300”.

Transitional Provision4

The amendments made by rule 3(b) apply only to a claim where the Claim Notification Form is sent in accordance with the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents on or after 30th April 2013.

The Right Honourable Lord Dyson, MRStephen Richards, LJPeter Coulson, JPhilip Sales, JMaster Barbara FontaineDistrict Judge Suzanne BurnDistrict Judge Christopher LethemNicholas Bacon QCWilliam Featherby QCKaty PetersQasim NawazAmanda StevensTim Lett

I allow these Rules

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Damian GreenMinister of StateMinistry of Justice
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Rules amend Part 45 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (SI 1998/3132), as amended by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/262).

In particular, these Rules amend rule 45.18, which, in Table 6, prescribes the fixed costs which may be recovered by a legally represented claimant in respect of the Stage 1 and Stage 2 procedures under the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (‘the Protocol’). These Rules substitute the new sums which may be recovered as fixed costs in those cases where, under the Protocol, the claimant’s Claim Notification Form is sent to the defendant’s insurer on or after 30th April 2013. An earlier typographical error in the same rule has also been corrected.