How do I change the color of Strikethrough without changing the color of the text?

It's not a nonsense - it's needed for legal pleadings when highlighting amended statements of claim (with strikethoughs marked in red). 

Can you point to a statute that mandates that what is struck out is to have the struck-out text in one colour and the strike-through line in a different one?

Practice Direction 17 to CPR Part 17.

No, that is not what is required. See paras 2.2-2.4 at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part17/pd_part17. All that is required is that "Where colour is used, the text to be deleted should be struck through in colour and any text replacing it should be inserted or underlined in the same colour." It does not require the text to be in one colour and the strike-through or underlining to be in a different colour.

Hello Paul Edstein,

Your understanding of the English Civil Procedure Rules > Practice Direction 17, is not correct. What it is saying is, that if the court requires the original text (since deleted by amendment) to be displayed together with the new text (added by amendment):

The original text which is always in black, is going to be struck through in colour, and the new words are to be shown in the same colour. [For a first amendment, strikethrough and new words - the colour to be used will be red.]

Quote:

" You must strike through anything you are changing on the original claim in RED"

http://legalbeagles.info/forums/showthread.php?21272-How-to-Amend-your-Claim-CPR-Practicalities

Regards,

Ray333

I suggest you read what it says, instead of reading into it something it doesn't say...

There is no mention of the font colour vis-a-vis either the strike-through or the underline. Thus, if the strike-through needs to be red, so to can be the text. Nothing on the page in your link or mine says the font for the text has to be black in such cases.

Hello Paul Edstein,

The original text of a pleading must be in black.

When you want to amend a pleading, where the court (I'm talking about the law of England and Wales in the U.K.) requires the old and new text to be seen together, the original deleted text must be shown (in black) [no need for the rule to say the original is in black because we know this] with red strikethrough, and the new text in red.

If you go to a further amendment, this is termed Re-Amendment:

If you are amending the amendment, then any deleted amended text must be shown (as it was) in red with green strikethrough, and any new text in green.

If you go to a further (third) amendment, this is termed a Re-re-amendment:

If you are amending the re-amendment, then any deleted re-amended text must be shown in green (as it was) with purple strikethrough, and any new text in purple.

I hope that I have now explained that for any deleted text by formal amendment, the previous colour STAYS and the strikethrough is shown in the required amendment colour.

I hope that I have now explained that the original text is always in black and the first amendment strikethrough must be in red.

The wording of the rules does assume legal training.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Ray333