161st Practice Direction update—in force 29 November 2023

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The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice have approved the 161st Practice Direction (PD) update to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR). The 161st PD update contains a number of amendments to CPR PD 51R, the Online Civil Money Claims pilot (the pilot). The amendments enable a claim up to £25,000 in value to be brought, and continued, under the pilot by a claimant who is legally represented against a litigant in person. Other amendments include: the ability for a defendant to respond to such a claim in the Welsh language; amendments in relation to when and how claims are sent out of the pilot; and amendments clarifying that information provided by the parties while in the pilot is to be treated as provided under the mainstream CPR if the claim is sent out of the pilot.