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Cut to the chase; thou shalt go CE; interesting mismatch; landlords still lamenting

LETS not bother; pilot flies wide; blow for estate agents

No fault default; unqualified DisSERVICE; stamping out; Bingo caller falls asleep.

Missing persons; letting agents targeted; more bingo & forfeiture traps 

Open the cage; master of the court: five days left; editing the experts; success fees unsuccessful.

New CPR updates; pleading shorthand blessed; week’s pay fattened up; (no) time to pay.

Nullity goes up; legal aid cuts no ice; homicide in Court of Appeal.

Beating the tardy defendant; new workers’ rights; Forced Backdate (not Backstop); success fees deaded

Blow to residential landlords; setting aside post-admission; family forms forever; demolition device demolished.

Invoice assignment bar goes; disbursementless bills; no child support, no passport; latest service charge wars

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Private wealth and tax offering bolstered by partner hire

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp

Firm grows real estate team with tenth partner hire this financial year

NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved
The Ministry of Justice is once again in the dock as access to justice continues to deteriorate. NLJ consultant editor David Greene warns in this week's issue that neither public legal aid nor private litigation funding looks set for a revival in 2026
Civil justice lurches onward with characteristic eccentricity. In his latest Civil Way column, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, surveys a procedural landscape featuring 19-page bundle rules, digital possession claims, and rent laws he labels ‘bonkers’
Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent
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