Patience, please...Judges are still summarily assessing costs in civil and family cases on the strength of interim hourly guideline rates which came into operation on 1 January 2009.
Who needs a banker?; Exchange JS for Pt 8; At your service; Lietigation; The R factor; The late protection game
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).
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector