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New pre-trial checklists; Intermediate track hearing fee; No fault possession; Help with Fees revamped

In this week’s Civil way, NLJ columnist & former District Judge Stephen Gold relays the good news that the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service is up and running along with guidance notes and the government’s checklist for renting in England

Situations vacant; Revised CPR forms; Enforcement fees to rise; Child report crisis; Social landlords watch out; Fighting against divorce

Updates on CPR updates; Online with court funds; Service charge insurance attacks

In this week’s Civil way, former district judge Stephen Gold reminds us there’s a lot happening outside of fixed recoverable costs—in fact, ‘an abundance of other stuff which has nothing to do with costs but which might be perceived by the cynical as a lot about nothing

Look, no judge; If it won’t work, scrap it; CPO compensation up; Statutory demand set asides; Deemed service gets dodgier; New ET forms; DJ gigs

Former District Judge Stephen Gold offers his views on revisions to the judicial conduct guide, in this week’s NLJ

Former district judge Stephen Gold takes us through ways in which to avoid the fixed recoverable costs regime, due to come into force on 1 October, in this week’s 'Civil way'.

Invest in Chalk; non-mol update; costs in a FIX; trade goes electronic; jabs for the incapacitated.

A funny business; Dodgy service; Cleaner notaries; Latest FPR PD update

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NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Kadie Bennett, senior associate at Anthony Collins and chair of the Resolution West Midlands Group, discusses her long-standing passion for family law and calls for unity in the profession

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Healthcare and sports legal team expands in the north west

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Give your views on disclosure in court

Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)

NLJ this week: Making Big Tech pay for digital addiction

Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: Courts caught in a ‘hierarchy of privacy’

Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design

NLJ this week: Leaseholders stuck in limbo

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: When a trial period becomes a ‘reasonable adjustment’

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

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Civil way

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson