The Weekly Roundup: The All Singing Edition

We are all, we hope, sticklers for ethics here, particularly when dealing with litigants in person. Which is why the judgment in Jenkinson v Robertson [2022] EWHC 756 (Admin)  has saddened us to no small degree. We were greatly cheered, however, by the decision of the Court of Appeal in Chelfat v Hutchinson 3G UK Limited [2022] EWCA Civ 455, in which the refusal of the County Court to issue a claim form unaccompanied by a Form N510 was criticised in no uncertain terms; reassuring, perhaps, for those practitioners who might, for whatever reason, be issuing close to the expiry of a limitation period. And in news just in from the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Fuhrmann-2, Case C-249/13 it was determined that in order to be validly bound by an electronically formed contract, consumers must clearly understand on the basis only of the words appearing on the ordering button that as soon they click on that button they will be under an obligation to pay the