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Civil way: 14 October 2022

14 October 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7998 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Personal injury , Tax
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RTA protocol transfers get easier; Social services which don’t care; Delay matrimonial transfers?; Basic and special account rises

TAXI FARE

Fairly rough justice is what you get—and are intended to get—under the protocol for low value personal injury road traffic accident claims, currently running at around 700,000 cases a year. I know because Jackson LJ told us so in Phillips v Willis [2016] EWCA Civ 401, [2016] All ER (D) 149 (Apr), and he knows because he effectively designed it and I witnessed it myself once or twice (but not when I was sitting, of course). The Court of Appeal has just stuck with this theme in second-tier appeals in Islington London Borough Council v Bourous and others [2022] EWCA Civ 1242 (in which Sir Andrew McFarlane P, possibly finding himself in the wrong place, agreed with the leading judgment). The protocol had an inexorable character and if the parties did not observe its provisions, they bore the consequences.

Two taxi drivers alleged loss resulting from their vehicles being

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
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