Statutory Instruments
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
2nd April 2013
Laid before Parliament
4th April 2013
Coming into force
30th April 2013
The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997(1) 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 1998(2).
Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
3. 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 Provision
4. 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, MR
Stephen Richards, LJ
Peter Coulson, J
Philip Sales, J
Master Barbara Fontaine
District Judge Suzanne Burn
District Judge Christopher Lethem
Nicholas Bacon QC
William Featherby QC
Katy Peters
Qasim Nawaz
Amanda Stevens
Tim Lett
I allow these Rules
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Damian Green
Minister of State
Ministry of Justice
2nd April 2013
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.
1997 c.12. Section 2(1) was substituted by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), section 15 and Schedule 4 Part 1. Section 1(3) was substituted by the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), section 82(1) and further amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 sections 15, 146, Schedule 4 Part 1 paragraphs 261 and 262 and Schedule 18, Part 2.
S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in the Schedule to S.I. 2013/262.