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The stay on evictions has been extended until 20 September 2020 and there will be a new six-month notice period on any eviction notices served by landlords
A coherent recovery plan is required to address the rising backlog of family cases, including an ‘unprecedented level of children law applications’ and a sharp increase in domestic abuse injunctions, a family lawyer writes for NLJ.
Recent intervention by justice ministers to clarify that wills witnessed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic will be considered valid has proved controversial in some quarters
Many solicitors are ‘predicting a tsunami of litigation with courts being overwhelmed just as they are dealing with the backlog of work developed in the lockdown,’ David Greene, senior partner, Edwin Coe, & NLJ consultant editor, writes in this week’s NLJ
As we enter the summer break, David Greene predicts some challenging & uncertain times ahead for the court system
The COVID-19 pandemic ‘has revealed the bankruptcy of austerity ideology’, says Patrick Allen, NLJ columnist & senior partner, Hodge, Jones & Allen
Family lawyers organisation Resolution has launched a jumbo training package to ease its members through lockdown
The Law Society has produced an interactive map to show which Nightingale courts are operational
Remote hearings, video hearings or no hearing at all? Sheena Cassidy Hope considers how the family courts might evolve
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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