The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2004
These Rules add the following new provisions to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (“the Rules”)—A new Section I of Part 45, in substitution for the existing Section I, which rationalises the provisions on fixed costs by incorporating the provisions of the former Rules of the Supreme Court and County Court Rules in Schedules I and II to the Rules, RSC Order 62 and CCR Order 38 (which are revoked by rule 15). The new Section I also extends the fixed costs regime to High Court possession claims under Part 55 which are not currently subject to fixed costs and applies fixed costs to demotion claims under Part 65.A new Part 67, which makes provision about certain types of proceedings against solicitors, including applications for a solicitor to deliver a bill or cash account; applications relating to money or securities held by a solicitor for a client; applications for the assessment of a solicitor’s costs; and proceedings relating to intervention by the Law Society in a solicitor’s practice. Part 67 replaces the former Rules of the Supreme Court in Schedule I to the Rules, RSC Order 106, which is revoked.