Procedure & practice

Police interviews during the COVID-19 crisis: Michael Zander on the new rules

The impact on international arbitration of the COVID-19 pandemic is among topics explored in a series of articles in NLJ’s ADR special this week

Writing in NLJ’s Civil Way this week, columnist DDJ Stephen Gold asks, ‘have you ever tried savaging a peanut?’

Anthony Gold Solicitors' managing partner David Marshall has been appointed to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee as a solicitor member

Adrian Keane considers jurors should be given a fuller & more accurate direction before returning their verdict

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

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

PD 51Z: managing court capacity & protecting public health

Amendments to civil legal aid will come into force on 15 May, removing the ‘much maligned gateway’ for advice in discrimination, debt and special educational needs and reinstating face-to-face advice in these areas, as well as a small change to the evidence required to prove a person is at risk from domestic abuse and therefore eligible for legal aid, NLJ columnist Stephen Gold writes in the latest Civil Way