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Is alleging an unfair relationship a necessary pleading of a fact? Fred Philpott examines a recent judgment of the High Court

Ten years ago, Sir Rupert Jackson’s civil costs review was a seismic event. How well have the ground-breaking reforms fared since? NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan takes a look at the Jackson legacy.

How have Sir Rupert Jackson’s ground-breaking reforms to civil procedure fared ten years on? Dominic Regan considers the work done & the work to come

Is the term ‘transparency’ an unlawful euphemism for open justice? David Burrows reviews the powers of the president of the Family Division to pilot transparency

Costs budgeting has been ‘useful’ and should be retained, guideline hourly rates (GHRs) retained but uprated annually for inflation, and a £500,000 costs cap installed in patent cases, a major review led by Lord Justice Birss has concluded.

With the courts confirming there is no way to define an ‘expert’ in family proceedings, Sarah Keily stresses the need for caution until change is effected

Nuptial news; coining it in; in favour of juniors; out with the scissors.

David Walbank KC reports on anthropomorphism in court & the legal protections accorded to animals

David Pickstone, Darren Kidd & Alexander Lerner examine some positive signs for CPR 19.6 & the future of collective proceedings in England and Wales

The Courts and Tribunal Judiciary released a message from Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Burnett, on 19 April 2023.

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Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

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NLJ this week: Making Big Tech pay for digital addiction

Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: Leaseholders stuck in limbo

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: When a trial period becomes a ‘reasonable adjustment’

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

NLJ this week: Ignore covenants at your peril

Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ

NLJ this week: Courts caught in a ‘hierarchy of privacy’

Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design

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Procedure & practice

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Corker Binning—Priya Dave