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Which judges are tipped for the top jobs? In this week’s 'Insider', Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School, praises Dame Sue Carr, the next Chief Justice, and reveals how her career could have taken an alternative albeit still high-profile trajectory!

As the courts gear up for the Long Vacation, Dominic Regan charts judicial stars on the rise & recommends a handy surgical procedure for costs lawyers

The Judiciary of England and Wales published the new edition of the Senior Court Costs Office (SCCO) Guide on 4 July 2023.

Sophie Houghton rounds up some key points for practitioners to consider ahead of the extension of fixed recoverable costs

Time to get to the point? Laura Rees addresses issues with the current guidance on raising points of dispute

It pays to be specific when setting out points of dispute, as Laura Rees, council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, explains in this week’s NLJ

Fees for attending meetings with case managers cannot be included in a costs budget, the High Court has held

Agency fees or expert fees? Masood Ahmed & Lal Akhter clarify the rules surrounding fees paid to a medical reporting organisation when assessing costs

Costs budgeting, guideline hourly rates and the extension of fixed costs were among the topics covered in a recent batch of recommendations handed down by the Civil Justice Council (CJC). In this week’s NLJ, Julian Chamberlayne and Louise Morgan welcome the ‘various bespoke processes’ championed in the CJC’s final report, and set out their thinking on the reforms ahead.

The fixed costs rules are almost here. Published at the end of last month although not effective until 1 October, ‘palpable anxiety is already coursing through the legal profession,’ Professor Dominic Regan reports in this week’s NLJ.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Cadwalader—Matthew Sperry

Firm grows private wealth practice with transatlantic hire

Michelmores—Jennifer Morrissey

Financial services and securities litigation specialist joins as partner in London

Shakespeare Martineau—David Smithen

South West land team bolstered by real estate partner hire in Bristol

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Long wait ahead for improvement in parental leave

MPs have expressed disappointment after the government confirmed it will not consider updating the parental leave system until at least 2027

NLJ this week: Civil tweaks & courtroom quirks

In his latest 'Civil way' column for this week's NLJ, Stephen Gold delivers a witty roundup of procedural updates and judicial oddities. From the rise in litigant-in-person hourly rates (£24 from October) to the Supreme Court’s venue hire options (canapés in Courtroom 1, anyone?), Gold blends legal insight with dry humour

NLJ this week: Back to (costs) basics

David Bailey-Vella of Davis Woolfe and chair of the Association of Costs Lawyers explores the new costs budgeting light pilot scheme in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Righting Libor wrongs

In July, the Supreme Court quashed the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, ruling that trial judges had wrongly directed juries to treat profit-motivated Libor submissions as inherently dishonest. In this week’s NLJ, David Stern and James Fletcher of 5 St Andrew’s Hill reflect on the decision

NLJ this week: Gaslighting & post-separation assets

In this week's issue of NLJ, Emma Brunning and Dharshica Thanarajasingham of Birketts unpack the high-conflict financial remedy case TF v SF [2025] EWHC 1659 (Fam). The husband’s conduct—described by the judge as a ‘masterclass in gaslighting’—included hiding a £9.5m deferred payment from the sale of a port acquired post-separation. Despite his claims that the port was non-matrimonial, the court found its value rooted in marital assets and efforts

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Costs

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cadwalader—Matthew Sperry

Michelmores—Jennifer Morrissey

Shakespeare Martineau—David Smithen