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Dispute Resolution weekly highlights—6 September 2018

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Published on: 06 September 2018

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Table of contents

Key DR developments
Court and the legal profession—CPR updates
Court and the legal profession—Chancery Guide revised
Evidence and disclosure
Privilege—SFO v ENRC
Factual evidence—adverse inferences in absence of witness and evidential status of contemporaneous notes
Starting and progressing a civil claim
Contempt, committal and sequestration—unrepresented defendants
Transferring proceedings—High Court and IPEC
Summary judgment and strike out—vexatious litigation

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Article summary

This week's edition of Dispute Resolution weekly highlights contains news of key DR developments such as the 100th CPR update and the recently revised Chancery Guide as well as analysis of some key judicial decisions including those of the Court of Appeal in SFO v ENRC (privilege), Manzi v King’s College Hospital (adverse inferences in absence of witness) and James v James (litigants in person, contempt). It also includes details of our new content on Brexit implications for dispute resolution as well as dates for your diary.

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