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CPRC June 2025: open justice pilot, CE-File PD5C, Part 75, summary assessment, Arbitration Act 2025, NSIP judicial review, OIC protocol, digital services extensions (England and Wales)

Published on: 16 July 2025

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Note: the CPRC no longer distributes the underlying papers with the minutes, and consequently no documents explaining the matters discussed are supplied alongside this News Analysis. A copy of the minutes can be found here: Minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.

Welcome, apologies and introductory remarks (item 1)

The minutes of the 9 May 2025 meeting were approved (for more detail, see News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—9 May 2025). From the action log, the following items were recorded:

Forms and standard orders—various strands of work remain in progress, and a new working group will be created. The Chair and Secretariat will finalise the finer details outside the committee.
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024—drafting was agreed under item 3 at the Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—9 May 2025, and the finalised draft is now circulating within the sub-committee for approval. A handful of substantive issues have emerged but are not anticipated to require consideration by the full committee.
Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) housing exemption—the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed that the government will extend the exemption of housing cases from the FRC regime until October 2028...

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