The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2014
These Rules make the following amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR)—amendments to rules 3.12 and 3.15 to clarify the proceedings to which Section II (costs management) of Part 3 of the CPR applies and the circumstances in which the court will make a costs management order;amendments to rules 81.13(1) and 81.18(3), so that certain permission applications in relation to committal for interference with the due administration of justice or in relation to committal for making a false statement of truth or disclosure statement can be made to any single judge of the High Court, rather than only to a single judge of the Queen’s Bench Division; anda series of amendments consequential on—changes to the CPR in relation to enforcement (particularly the introduction of Parts 83 to 86) made by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2014 (SI 2014/407) (“the main enforcement rules”);other changes in relation to enforcement made by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007; andthe implementation of the single County Court on the coming into force of provisions in Section 17 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) and changes to the CPR in respect of the single County Court made by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2014.