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‘The Road Ahead’ set out for family courts

Jon Robins examines the potentially damaging impact of the COVID-19 crisis on jury trials

HHJ Karen Walden-Smith outlines why the courts should take a global approach to applications to resile, while serving the interests of justice

The ban on evictions, introduced in response to the COVID-19 crisis, has been extended by two months until 23 August

The Court of Appeal has provided clarity on the Art 2 obligations of the State to protect life where a person in a care home is the subject of a deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) authorisation and may have died following errors in medical care and treatment

A legal team has been assembled to campaign for a prosecution against the Prime Minister’s aide, Dominic Cummings for breaching lockdown rules

Falcon Chambers’ next weekly free of charge ‘zoominar’ will focus on possession

Global litigation funder Therium has given £100,000 and provided its own resources to help launch the Community Justice Fund

Legal aid lawyers have turned to poetry to make sense of lockdown, and their writing will now raise funds for the Law Centres Network

Neil Parpworth outlines how access to justice, through the function of the courts, must continue during the coronavirus pandemic

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Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Corporate and commercial team welcomes technology specialist as partner

Birketts—Michael Conway

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

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou

Real estate finance practice announces partner appointment

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Flaws found in fixed costs regime

The extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) from low-value personal injury to most civil cases worth up to £100,000 ‘is failing to deliver what it promised’, the Law Society has warned

Brimelow sets out Bar priorities for 2026

Bar campaigns will focus on protecting juries, legal aid and children’s rights in the year ahead with a working group already looking into the age of criminal responsibility, chair Kirsty Brimelow KC has said

CEO appointed at legal super-regulator

Richard Orpin has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees all nine legal regulators

Parental leave rights given effect

Workers will be given day-one rights to parental leave in April, the government has confirmed

Appointments at the Supreme Court

Lord Sales has become deputy president, and Lord Doherty a justice, at the Supreme Court. Both were sworn in this week at a ceremony conducted by the court’s president Lord Reed in Courtroom One

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Birketts—Michael Conway

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou