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Dispute Resolution—judicial practice notes and guidance

Dispute Resolution—judicial practice notes and guidance This Practice Note contains current judicial practice notes and judicial guidance of interest to Dispute resolution lawyers published for the following courts: the Chancery Division, Commercial Court, King’s Bench Division (not including the Administrative Court or Planning Court), Business and Property Courts, Senior Courts Costs Office and the Rolls Building. It includes practice notes that provide guidance on electronic working, starting a claim, hearings and trial, making applications, witness evidence, judgments and orders, and contempt of court. HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) publishes a weekly operational summary which provides a weekly summary of the service operational position for users. Also see @HMCTSgovuk Twitter account. To see the court guides for the individual specialist courts, see Practice Note: Court guides and other guidance. Court guidance on use of AI The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary published guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist the judiciary, clerks and support staff in 2023—Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Judicial Guidance. The guidance was created...

High Court and County Court employment claims

High Court and County Court employment claims Most employment rights arise from statute and disputes relating to them are generally within the exclusive jurisdiction of the employment tribunal. This includes: • claims for unfair dismissal (see Unfair dismissal—overview), and • prohibited conduct claims (discrimination, harassment etc) under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) (see Practice Note: Employment events which give rise to discrimination, harassment and victimisation claims) Other types of employment or employment-related dispute: • may be brought in the High Court or County Court, or may alternatively be brought instead in the employment tribunal • must only be brought before the High Court or County Court Whereas employment tribunals derive their jurisdiction exclusively from statute, the civil courts largely have their own inherent jurisdiction and may deal with a wide variety of common law and other claims. This Practice Note considers the employment-related claims that either may or must be brought in the High Court or County Court. It gives a very high...

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Standard order 3.2—search order—family proceedings

Standard order 3.2—search order—family proceedings In the Family Court sitting at [Court name] No: [case number] [ The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 OR The Civil Partnership Act 2004 OR The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 and Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 OR The Senior Courts Act 1981 ] [DELETE AS APPROPRIATE] The [Marriage OR Civil Partnership OR Relationship] of [applicant name] and [respondent name] After hearing [name the advocate(s) who appeared] After reading the statements and hearing the witnesses specified in the recitals below Search order made by [name of judge] on [date] sitting in private To [RESPONDENT NAME] of [RESPONDENT ADDRESS] Warning: if you [RESPONDENT NAME] disobey this order you may be held to be in contempt of court and may be imprisoned, fined or have your assets seized Any other person who knows of this order and does anything which helps or permits [RESPONDENT NAME] to breach the terms of this order may be held to be in contempt...

Reply (defamation)

Reply (defamation) Claim No.:HQ [insert claim number] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KING’S BENCH DIVISION ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST PARTIES: (1) [Insert full name of claimant/first claimant] (2) [[Insert full name of second claimant]] [Claimant OR Claimants] and [Insert full name of defendant] Defendant _____________________________________ REPLY _____________________________________ 1 The [Claimant joins OR Claimants join] issue with the Defendant on his Defence save for the admissions it contains and those averments therein which are expressly admitted below. Paragraph references are to the Defence. 2 The [Claimant denies OR Claimants deny OR that the words complained of in the meanings set out at paragraph 8.1 of the Defence are true. Without limitation to the generality of this denial as to the particulars of truth advanced to support those imputations, the [Claimant pleads OR Claimants plead] as follows: 2.1 [set out the claimant’s/claimants’ response to the Particulars of Truth set out by the defendant in his defence, admitting or denying as appropriate]. 3 It...

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Property Disputes weekly highlights—17 April 2025

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions concerning a loan agreement found to constitute an enforceable, unregulated investment property loan, a claim for unjustified enrichment relating to work carried out on a residential property and analysis of the grant of an order for possession and sale due to the vesting of property in trustees, an appellant who was barred from pursuing a new claim for the first time on appeal, and an Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) decision concerning the First-tier Tribunal’s appearance of bias in raising and determining an unpleaded issue in contractual liability for service charges dispute. It also includes a Court of Appeal decision that disclosure by the court of an assessor’s evaluation of evidence is not required unless fairness demands it, a Country Court decision concerning the vesting of a new lease of a whole building that must be made on terms equivalent to the forfeited head lease, analysis of the treatment of principal secured debt under a mental health crisis moratorium,...

PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—17 April 2025

This week’s edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes a Court of Appeal decision which considered causation in a mesothelioma claim. We also consider a High Court judgment which found that the fixed costs regime was disapplied retrospectively on allocation to the multi-track. In addition, we have our usual roundup of other news, cases and New Law Journal articles of interest.

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