Guidance

Practice Direction update 115: video hearings

Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51V Video Hearing Pilot Scheme.

• From: Civil Procedure Rule Committee and Ministry of Justice
• Published: 11 February 2020

Applies to England and Wales

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Practice Direction update 115

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115th Practice Direction update

This provides for changes to PD 51V Video Hearing Pilot Scheme which come into force on 2 March 2020.

It recommences the Video Hearings Pilot, which was set up to test a procedure for applications to set aside default judgments entered under CPR Part 12 to be heard by the court via an internet-enabled video link (“a video hearing”) in Birmingham or Manchester Civil Justice Centres. The original pilot ran from 30 November 2018 to 30 November 2019.

HM Courts & Tribunal Service is keen to continue testing hearings to allow them to gain further insight into users’ experience of a fully video hearing. The terms of the new PD are fundamentally the same as the existing PD51V, save for one change, that an ‘opt out’ rather than an ‘opt in’ condition is incorporated for represented parties.

The PD update allows for the pilot to run to 30 November 2020.

Published 11 February 2020