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Civil way: 1 December 2023

01 December 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8051 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Judicial poses; Juniors may speak; Dodgy drafting; Fees hike promised; Business tenancy opposition

SAY CHEESE

Someone has cottoned on to the jeopardy presented by the taking of those delightful post-adoption order photographs at court with child, family and judge. No, not the ceiling falling in but a prosecution for breach of s 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 which prohibits snapping in court or its precincts. The Courts (Prescribed Recordings) Order 2013 (SI 2023/1124) rushed into force after 96 years on 24 October 2023 has come to the rescue. It disapplies the prohibition for adoption ‘ceremony’ stills where taken after the proceedings and authorised by the court and undertaken in accordance with the court’s instructions.


JUNIOR SLEEP TO BE INTERRUPTED

First, Mr Justice Foxton expressed pleasure at the increasing frequency with which junior advocates have been undertaking some of the oral submissions in the commercial court. Now the good and the powerful, headed by the Lady Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls, have got in on the act with an

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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