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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

Barristers at 4 Stone Buildings have published an e-book, ‘Litigation in the time of COVID-19: legal issues in commerce, finance and insolvency’

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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Birketts—Michael Conway

IP partner joins team in Bristol to lead branding and trade marks practice

Blake Morgan—Daniel Church

Succession and tax team welcomes partner inLondon

Maguire Family Law—Jennifer Hudec

Firm appoints senior associate to lead Manchester city centre team

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Client account interest money-maker provokes concerns

Ministers’ proposals to raise funds by seizing interest on lawyers’ client account schemes could ‘cause firms to close’, solicitors have warned

NLJ this week: The pension split at 25

Pension sharing orders (PSOs) have quietly reached their 25th anniversary, yet remain stubbornly underused. Writing in NLJ this week, Joanna Newton of Stowe Family Law argues that this neglect risks long-term financial harm, particularly for women

NLJ this week: Exclusion zone?

A school ski trip, a confiscated phone and an unauthorised hotel-room entry culminated in a pupil’s permanent exclusion. In this week's issue of NLJ, Nicholas Dobson charts how the Court of Appeal upheld the decision despite acknowledged procedural flaws

NLJ this week: When silence speaks volumes

Is a suspect’s state of mind a ‘fact’ capable of triggering adverse inferences? Writing in NLJ this week, Andrew Smith of Corker Binning examines how R v Leslie reshapes the debate

Public Accounts Committee warn of ‘extinction’ risk for legal aid

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—Michael Conway

Blake Morgan—Daniel Church

Maguire Family Law—Jennifer Hudec