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Soaring fees; Drug addicts: bad news; Witness immunity; TOLATA beats AR

Tribunal awards down; bank charge claims set to revive; ruling on missing credit agreement defence

Swear certificates, the court fee feeling, whoops, chequemate, long live rejection.

Councils into forced marriages; unfair shock; and credit reference peril

The 50th update to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 came into force on 1 October 2009. Here’s the best of it.

>> Ivy booking problems
>> Charging order beats bankruptcy
>> Hire care offers
>> relet victory for consumers

Cafcass is in trouble. There has been a dramatic increase in public law child work post Baby P and private law business is getting less of a look in

Two and a half months to go. The most entertaining of the company law changes coming into force on 1 October 2009 are the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 (which will replace the Business Names Act 1985).

Ritzy fees

It’s been entered into the hymn books of third party liability insurers and could become a resident feature of responses to personal injury protocol letters of claim—Walton v Kirk [2009] EWHC 703, [2009] All ER (D) 70 (Apr).

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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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