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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

Latest CPR update; family changes too; Costs Guide Revival; Fast then Small; Family Orders march on

Worse for assured shortholds; searching for an adoptee; stay halts service; old maintenance arrears.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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