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PI Practitioner, August 2016

16/08/16. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just select "Free Newsletter" from the menu at the top of this page and fill in your email address.

Costs Budgets: Changes Introduced in April 2016

Rule 3.13 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which deals with the filing and exchanging of costs budgets, has been amended by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016, which came into effect on 6 April 2016. Among the most important changes are the alteration to the date by which parties must file budgets in multi-track cases (r.3.13(1)) and the introduction of a requirement for a budget discussion report (r.3.13(2)). As previously, the requirements only apply...

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