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Civil way: 12 July 2019

11 July 2019
Issue: 7848 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Bailiffs snoozing; missing but remembered; minor costs; real prospects; orders taken short

HUG A DEBTOR

If you find the county court bailiff is taking longer to execute your warrant of control, here’s why. Warrant of control centres are being established in 12 locations—some are already operational—to which there will be referral of all warrants, whether issued either on a paper request to a hearing centre or an online request to Money Claim Online. Over a period of around 12 days, the centres will attempt to engage with debtors with a view to organising a pay up and giving support. Cynics might suggest this will give even more time for the home cinema equipment to be dismantled and that the High Court is looking even more attractive for enforcement of a £600-plus county court judgment. How a creditor’s application to abridge notice to the debtor of an intention to call, possibly to nil, will be dealt with, remains to be seen.

GONE FISHING?

Beware of being talked into an extended holiday abroad. The Guardianship

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

Forum of Insurance Lawyers elects president for 2026

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Partner joinslabour and employment practice in London

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

NEWS
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Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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