Civil Procedure Convention Singapore

[Francoise Witsell]

TheCivil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2024 will enter into force on the date on which the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (concluded on 2nd July 2019 at The Hague) enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom.

Registration Model:sets out a registration requirement in the 1982 Act, under which parties seeking recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment in the UK under Hague 2019 will first need to apply to register their judgment in the relevant UK court.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 169th Practice Direction Update. The 169th Update contains amendments to Practice Direction 51R (Online Civil Money Claims) and comes into force on 18 May 2024.

Previously, the provisions in PD 51R limited the use of digital notices of change to cases where all parties are legally represented, which means that if a litigant in person decides to appoint a legal representative, the court cannot be notified digitally; the notice has to be filed on paper instead, and then the claim has to be transferred out of the pilot.

This update widens the provisions to allow cases that are initially legal representative versus litigant in person, to provide for a digital notice of change to be filed where the litigant in person appoints a legal representative.

This practice direction adopts the same paragraph numbering as Practice Direction 36ZG of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (the Family Practice Direction) where possible and, where relevant, corresponds with the Family Practice Direction, because pilots will operate in both jurisdictions. If a paragraph of the Family Practice Direction is not applicable, the corresponding paragraph in this practice direction is blank.

PD51ZF is to be inserted after Practice Direction 51ZE, having come into force on 9 May 2024, in readiness of commencement. The PD will not be in active use until Part 3 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 has been commenced for piloting purposes. Courts in the piloting sites are aware of the preparations for the pilot launch. This information will be updated once a commencement date for piloting of Part 3 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 has been confirmed.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 166th Practice Direction Update. The 166th Update contains a suite of amendments to introduce Automatic Referral to Mediation in civil cases, and comes into force on 22 May 2024.

Your views are being sought on the proposed draft amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) regarding Alternative Dispute Resolution. The proposed reforms flow from the Court of Appeal judgment in James Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 165th Practice Direction Update. The 165th Update contains a suite of amendments to Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) in civil cases, and comes into force on 6th April 2024.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 164th Practice Direction (PD) Update. The 164th Update contains a suite of amendments to PD 51R, Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) and PD 51ZB, Damages Claims Portal (DCP), which came into force at 11am on 29th February 2024.

The 164th PD Update contains three main categories of amendment: Mediation, which only applies to PD 51R (OCMC), trial readiness certificates and trial bundles, which applies to both PD 51R (OCMC) and PD 51ZB (DCP), and applications, which also applies to both OCMC and the DCP.

Your views are being sought on the proposed draft amendments to Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) rule 5.4C (supply of documents to a non-party from court records). The proposed reforms flow from the UK Supreme Court judgment in Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd -v- Dring [2019] UKSC 38

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 25 of the CPR.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 161st Practice Direction Update. The 161st Update contains a suite of amendments to Practice Direction 51R, Online Civil Money Claims, which came into force at 11am on 29th November 2023.

There are also amendments clarifying that information provided by the parties while in the pilot is to be treated as provided under the mainstream Civil Procedure Rules if the claim is sent out of the pilot.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 160th Practice Direction Update. This contains a suite of amendments to Practice Direction 51ZB, the Damages Claims Pilot which came into force at 11am on 16th November 2023.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 159th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules, which came into force at 11am on19th September 2023. It provides a suite of amendments to two pilot Practice Directions (PD), namely PD 51R the Online Civil Money Claims Pilot and PD 51ZB the Damages Claims Pilot.

The amendments are part of a package of amendments correcting minor errors such as incorrect cross-references arising out of the fixed recoverable costs amendments (see earlier bulletin regarding the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023, 156th Practice Direction Update and associated Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) Update).

Further to the bulletin of April 2023, the Statutory Instrument and accompanying Practice Direction Update extending Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) have now been signed by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice.

(ii) for claims allocated to either the fast track or the intermediate track, assignment to one of four complexity bands, as also provided by Part 26, which will determine the amount of fixed costs allowable in respect of a claim under Part 45.

The majority of amendments in this Update are minor consequential amendments, which take account of amendments to Part 36 and amendments to Parts 26 and 45 by way of substitution of those Parts and their respective practice directions.

More substantial amendments are made to the Pre-Action Protocol for Disease and Illness Claims, which make provision for noise induced hearing loss claims which would normally be allocated to the fast track, in respect of which costs are set by Section VIII of new Part 45 and Table 15 in PD 45. (Part 28 and PD 28, both amended by way of substitution, make further provision regarding the case management of such claims).

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 24 of the CPR

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, have signed the 154th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules, which came into force, variously, from 1st March 2023. It provides a suite of amendments to two pilot Practice Directions (PD), namely PD 51R the Online Civil Money Claims Pilot and PD 51ZB the Damages Claims Pilot.

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 22 and Part 23 of the CPR

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 151st and the 152nd Practice Direction Updates to the Civil Procedure Rules, which come into force variously on the 16November 2022 and 1st December 2022. The online rules will be updated accordingly.

Clarifying amendments to Practice Direction 51R, the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) Pilot Scheme, to make it clear that prospective Help with Fees is not available to legally represented parties using OCMC. There are also three further minor amendments for tidying up purposes and to simplify language.

The introduction of PD 51Z, the County Court Officers Pilot Scheme. This scheme provides for Court Officers to be authorised to make certain paper case management directions by completing standard order templates. The work will be overseen by Designated Civil Judges. The pilot will apply nationally to all suitable county court claims (except for certain cases which are considered to be too factually complex). The Pilot does not include digital work, namely, cases issued through either the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) pilot or the online Damages Claims Pilot (DCP).The Pilot (PD 51Z) will run from 1st December 2022, until 30th November 2024 (unless extended).

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 21 and the proposed revocation of PD21 of the CPR.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 150th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules, which comes into force on 15th September 2022. The online rules will be updated accordingly.

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 20 and PD20 of the CPR.

The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have signed the 148th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules, which comes into force immediately, Wednesday, 1st June 2022.

As part of its project to try to simplify the rules; this being a statutory duty under s.2(7) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is seeking your views on proposed amendments to Part 17 (Amendments to Statement of Case) and Part 38 (Discontinuance) of the CPR.

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