UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
2019 No. 1118 (L. 8)
Senior Courts, England And Wales
County Court, England And Wales
The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019
Made 11th July 2019
Laid before Parliament 18th July 2019
Coming into force 1st October 2019
The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997to make rules under section 1 of that Act and after consulting in accordance with section 2(6)(a) of that Act, makes the following Rules.
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Citation, commencement and interpretationCitation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019 and come into force on 1st October 2019.
(2) In these Rules, a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.
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Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
2. The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 are amended in accordance with rules 3 and 4 of, and the Schedule to, these Rules.
Amendment of Part 45
3. In rule 45.41(2), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)
“(a) “Aarhus Convention claim” means a claim brought by one or more members of the public by judicial review or review under statute which challenges the legality of any decision, act or omission of a body exercising public functions, and which is within the scope of Article 9(1), 9(2) or 9(3) of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters done at Aarhus, Denmark on 25 June 1998 (“the Aarhus Convention”);”.
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Substitution of Part 53Substitution of Part 53
4. For Part 53, substitute Part 53 as set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
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Transitional provisionTransitional provision
5. The amendments made by rule 4 of, and the Schedule to, these Rules do not apply in relation to a claim issued before 1st October 2019.
The Right Honourable Sir Terence Etherton, MR
Lord Justice Coulson
Mr Justice Birss
Mr Justice Kerr
Master Cook
District Judge Hovington
John Dagnall
Masood Ahmed
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Ministry of Justice
11th July 2019
SCHEDULE
Rule 4
SCHEDULE
“PART 53
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS CLAIMS
Contents of this Part
Rule 53.1 |
Scope of this Part |
Rule 53.2 |
Specialist list |
Rule 53.3 |
Application of the Civil Procedure Rules |
Rule 53.4 |
Proceedings in the Media and Communications List |
Rule 53.5 |
Summary disposal under the Defamation Act 1996 |
Rule 53.6 |
Sources of information |
Scope of this Part
This Part contains rules about media and communications claims.
A “media and communications claim” means a claim which—
satisfies the requirements of paragraph (3) or (4); and
has been issued in or transferred into the Media and Communications List.
A High Court claim must be issued in the Media and Communications List if it is or includes a claim for defamation, or is or includes—
a claim for misuse of private information;
a claim in data protection law; or
a claim for harassment by publication.
Subject to Part 63 and any other applicable provisions, a claim not falling within paragraph (3) may be issued in the Media and Communications List if the claim arises from—
the publication or threatened publication of information via the media, online or in speech; or
other activities of the media,
and the claimant considers it is suitable for resolution in that list.
Specialist list
The Media and Communications List is a specialist list of the High Court.
One of the Judges of the...
