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The avalanche of Jackson legislation continues unabated...

We thought we would do Jackson, carrying on where we left off...

They have arrived and to prove it, they are here: the Lord Justice Jackson inspired Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013...

Legal aid will still be available as from 1 April 2013 to victims of domestic violence in private law cases...

The latest on PI damages & the interview of a lifetime

Some criminal advocates only change their speeches to the jury and some family legal aid counsel can only afford to change their shirts once a year

Unless you are only just back from Mars or Stratford, you will be aware that general damages in personal injury tort cases are rising by 10% with effect from 1 April 2013

County court counters will be closed from 2pm instead of 4pm in the London group of courts between 16 July and 31 August 2012 so that staff can manage the workload during the busy summer leave period

They have just become more readily available. The High Court and county courts are now empowered to make a charging order without any default under an instalment judgment...

Nine lives too many & a concurrence conundrum for George

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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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