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Civil way: 1 October 2021

01 October 2021 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7950 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Landlords take notice; Litigators in the money; Company creditors still wound up; Domestic abuse reforms

NORMAL NOTICE PERIODS REPOSSESSED

Some degree of normality is injected into residential possessions in England with the return of pre-covid notice periods as from today 1 October 2021. It’s back to the general 14 days to two months. Some landlords will wish to assess whether to withdraw notices already served and restart. The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies and Notices) (Amendment and Suspension) (England) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/994) take us back to the good or bad old days (depending on whether your client is a non-payer or a non-receiver). At the same time, they eschew over comfort in retaining the power to bring back longer periods until 25 March 2022. And, yes, duty housing advisers are given a fillip with the introduction of new versions of the notices: form 3 for s 8 Housing Act 1988 grounds, form 6A for s 21 Housing Act 1988 and the part 2 notice for s 83 of the Housing

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pillsbury—Steven James

Pillsbury—Steven James

Firm boosts London IP capability with high-profile technology sector hire

Clarke Willmott—Michelle Seddon

Clarke Willmott—Michelle Seddon

Private client specialist joins as partner in Taunton office

DWF—Rory White-Andrews

DWF—Rory White-Andrews

Finance and restructuring offering strengthened by partner hire in London

NEWS
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) continues to stir controversy across civil litigation, according to NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School—AKA ‘The insider’
SRA v Goodwin is a rare disciplinary decision where a solicitor found to have acted dishonestly avoided being struck off, says Clare Hughes-Williams of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) imposed a 12-month suspension instead, citing medical evidence and the absence of harm to clients
In their latest Family Law Brief for NLJ, Ellie Hampson-Jones and Carla Ditz of Stewarts review three key family law rulings, including the latest instalment in the long-running saga of Potanin v Potanina
The Asian International Arbitration Centre’s sweeping reforms through its AIAC Suite of Rules 2026, unveiled at Asia ADR Week, are under examination in this week's NLJ by John (Ching Jack) Choi of Gresham Legal
In this week's issue of NLJ, Yasseen Gailani and Alexander Martin of Quinn Emanuel report on the High Court’s decision in Skatteforvaltningen (SKAT) v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors [2025], where Denmark’s tax authority failed to recover £1.4bn in disputed dividend tax refunds
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