The Law Society won an extension until 2 November of the injunction preventing new rules that will open up access to court files from applying retrospectively last week. Law Society representation chief executive Des Hudson said the Department for Constitutional Affairs had agreed that the problems caused by the retrospective effect of the rules needed to be rectified (see 2006 Gazette, 5 October, 5). A spokeswoman for the Courts Service would not confirm whether the rule is going to be amended.