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‘Pause’ courts to stop infections
The Law Society has proposed a two-week ‘pause’ of non-custodial Crown and magistrates’ court work, amid rising fears about the new Coronavirus variant
17 January 2021
Supreme Court boosts business & jobs with COVID insurance ruling
Lawyers have hailed a Supreme Court judgment on COVID-19 insurance cover, which could save thousands of jobs
15 January 2021
Civil litigation: An ill wind… Premium Content
Dominic Regan highlights the positives in civil litigation from a grim 2020
14 January 2021 / Dominic Regan
No to out of hours family hearings
The senior family judge has issued a warning to judges not to hold hearings out of normal 10am-4.30pm working hours despite pressure to deal with cases quickly
13 January 2021
Criminal lawyers at risk
The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has questioned why the courts are to spend time piloting COVID-19 testing at selected sites when such a scheme has already ‘been administered in car parks up and down the land for many months’
13 January 2021
Family told: make it quick
The senior family judge has issued a warning to judges not to hold hearings out of normal 10am-4.30pm working hours despite pressure to deal with cases quickly
11 January 2021
Whiplash: delayed again
Reforms to whiplash claims have been postponed again, this time to May 2021, because of the impact of the pandemic on the insurance, legal and medical sectors
11 January 2021
LNB news: Coronavirus (COVID-19)—UKSC announces building closure
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) has announced the closure of its building due to the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown restrictions
08 January 2021
COVID-19: Following the herd Premium Content
COVID-19 and the challenge of herd immunity: what role can the law play, asks Sarah Moore
08 January 2021 / Sarah Moore
HLPA publishes letter on extending the suspension of evictions amid coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA) has written an open letter to the Secretaries of State for Housing and Justice. In the letter, HLPA voices its support for the re–enacting of measures that were put in place in March 2020 to protect people from losing their homes
07 January 2021
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Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Changing faces
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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