Practice Direction update 105: Electronic Working Pilot Scheme
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51O Electronic Working Pilot Scheme.
Applies to England and Wales
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105th Practice Direction update
This comes into effect immediately.
It extends the application of the existing Electronic Working Pilot Scheme (PD 51O) to the out-of-London Business and Property Court centres. The existing scheme came in by way of the 100th PD update which introduced a pilot scheme for electronic working in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court and that became effective from 1 January 2019, operating until 6 April 2020.
The changes in this, 105th PD Update, are therefore modest and straightforward by simply adding the out-of-London Business and Property Courts centres to the list of jurisdictions to which the pilot Practice Direction applies, and indicates the applicable start and end dates.
A related Practice Note from the Senior Master can be viewed on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary site as well as an announcement of the scheme.
There are no new or amended forms associated with this update.
Take notice and looking ahead
The Civil Procedure Rule Committee Statutory Instrument (SI) is due to come into force on 6 April 2019. Some elements of the 104th PD update are related. The SI is currently subject to Parliamentary approval and will, ultimately be published via legislation.gov.uk.
A series of PD updates are anticipated, from March 2019 onwards regarding progression adaptions to the Online Civil Money Claims scheme.