This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2021/196 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

2021 No. 553 (L. 8)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales
County Court, England And Wales

The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2021

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force in accordance with rule 2

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 19971 to make rules under section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Act and after fulfilling the requirements of section 2(6) of that Act, makes the following Rules.

Citation and commencement

1

These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2021.

2

1

Rule 3 comes into force on 31st May 2021.

2

Rule 4 comes into force on the 21st day after the day on which these Rules are laid before Parliament.

Amendments to Part 27 of the Civil Procedure Rules 19983

1

Part 27 of the Civil Procedure Rules 19982 is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this rule.

2

In rule 27.4(3)(a)(ii), for “Practice Direction 27”, substitute “Practice Direction 27A”.

3

In rule 27.14(2), in sub-paragraphs (b), (e) and (f), for “Practice Direction 27”, in each place it appears, substitute “Practice Direction 27A”.

Amendment to the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 20214

In rule 6 of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 20213—

a

after the words “In rule 27.2”, omit the words “, for paragraph (2B) substitute”; and

b

in paragraph (b), in the words in quotation marks to be inserted by that provision—

i

for “small claims”, in the first place it appears, substitute “small claim”; and

ii

in sub-paragraph (b), omit “as they may apply to those small claims”.

The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Vos, MRLord Justice BirssMr Justice TrowerHis Honour Judge BirdHis Honour Judge Jarman QCMaster CookDistrict Judge CohenDistrict Judge ParkerTom Montagu-Smith QCDr Anja Lansbergen-MillsMasood AhmedLizzie Iron

I allow these Rules

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David WolfsonParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for JusticeMinistry of Justice
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132) (“CPR”), by substituting cross-references to “Practice Direction 27A” for cross-references to “Practice Direction 27” in Part 27 of the Rules. These amendments are made in anticipation of the coming into force on 31st May 2021 of new Practice Direction 27B: Claims Under the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims Below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents – Court Procedure.

In addition, these Rules amend rule 6 of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/196), which amends rule 27.2 of the CPR, to correct a drafting error. Further amendments have been made to improve the grammar of the new provision which is inserted by rule 6.