Guidance

Practice Direction update 106: Online Civil Money Claims

Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51R Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) pilot.

From:
Civil Procedure Rule Committee and Ministry of Justice
Published
14 March 2019

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Practice Direction update 106

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Details

106th Practice Directions update

These amendments come into force at 11am on 18 March 2019.

The update provides for the release of the following additional components within the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) scheme:

  • to embed in the OCMC process a general notification feature to enable the claimant to notify the Court that a claim has been settled. This will prompt the court to mark a claim as stayed unless the defendant objects. This necessitates changes to Practice Direction 51R
  • to clarify and make minor changes to provisions in both Practice Direction 51R and 51S as regards the time for submitting forms to the court

No forms have been created or modified as part of this update.

Take notice and looking ahead

Please note that a series of further PD updates are anticipated, from now on, as and when additional functionalities and progressive adaptions are made to the Online Civil Money Claims scheme. These bespoke PD updates will be issued outside the routine twice yearly SI and PD Updates covering changes across the CPR. Where the OCMC related modifications are significant, notice periods will be maximised wherever possible.

As previously advised, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee Statutory Instrument (SI) is due to come into force on 06 April 2019. Some elements of the 104th PD update are related. The SI is currently subject to Parliamentary approval and will, ultimately be published on legislation.gov.uk.

Published 14 March 2019

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