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Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School provides a ‘costs crammer’, in this week’s NLJ, in the first of a special refresher series.

Masood Ahmed examines the court’s approach to a party’s non-attendance at trial, & the high bar for applications to set aside the resulting judgment

Portal grab for defendants; Covid rent arbitration flop; Beware of glass cubes; MIAM rule book.

The task of simplifying the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) is ‘a mammoth task and expected to take quite some time, but is already showing promise’, Lord Justice Birss, deputy head of civil justice, has said in his foreword to the Civil Procedure Rules Committee (CPRC) annual report for 2021

More harm than good? Professor Michael Zander QC reflects on 10 years of the Woolf Reforms

Looking for a digital future while dealing with ‘utter mess’ whiplash reforms

The unfortunates? Spats are brewing as the digital golden age beckons, says Dominic Regan

State your case!; the midnight count; up the workers; new family guidance; no bundle fun in Admin Court; look, no captain.

Possession laws and coronavirus regulations have together knitted a jumble sale of dates, deadlines, notice periods and requirements.

Costs warning for the non-negotiators

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Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Weightmans appoint new Chief Technology Officer

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Mishcon de Reya announces trainee retention rate of 86%

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton

Sackers welcomes two new Graduate Solicitor Apprentices

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Entries open for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2027

LexisNexis is delighted to announce the launch of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2027, celebrating outstanding achievement, innovation and impact across the legal profession

SRA to face increased enforcement

The Legal Services Board (LSB) is to take further enforcement action against the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), setting additional performance targets and ‘intensifying’ its oversight, it has said

PM Law failures exposed in detail

Regulators missed several opportunities to intervene in PM Law Group before it collapsed, an independent review by City firm Jenner & Block has found

Employees transfer but liability remains

An employer’s vicarious liability for the alleged torts of an employee cannot be transferred by TUPE, the Court of Appeal has confirmed

Tiered fees for complaints could be costly

Tiered fees of up to £1,500 for Legal Ombudsman (LeO) cases could leave firms with little option but to pay out, lawyers have warned

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CPR

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton