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Parliament should operate virtually, with MPs and Peers working remotely to scrutinise legislation and vote during the COVID-19 pandemic, an independent thinktank has urged

Contact conundrums & insolvent administration

Michael Zander on the Coronavirus Act 2020

If the police are to maintain public support in these turbulent times they must ensure that their actions are consistent, necessary & proportionate, says Nicholas Dobson

Domestic abuse victims are particularly vulnerable and will need more protection than ever during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Law Society has warned

Advocates need not rise when the court assembles, if linking remotely, NLJ columnist Stephen Gold explains in this week’s Civil Way

Trainee barristers are in a ‘particularly vulnerable position’, the Bar Council Chair has warned, after a survey found nearly a third of chambers are changing their plans for pupillage

Steps are being taken to prevent large-scale COVID-19 infections in our overcrowded prisons, but the numbers don’t add up, MPs have heard

More than three-quarters of employers have furloughed some staff or plan to do so, according to benchmarking research by law firm Lewis Silkin into the impact of COVID-19

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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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Covid-19

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Birketts—Michael Conway

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou