Member

I am bound to say that I take it from the Explanatory Memorandum that that is the case. Paragraphs 5.5 to 5.8 make it clear that the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, the Family Procedure Rule Committee and the Tribunal Procedure Committee will still have power to make rules. I rather infer that the expectation is that they will continue to make rules and that such rules will apply to paper proceedings and will, therefore, enable paper proceedings to be followed by such people as may be digitally disadvantaged in those areas.