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Civil way: 13 October 2017

13 October 2017 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7765 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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Debt protocol is here; 20% of His Honour; ‘Stop it!’

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Unspecified claims go online—for some A county court pilot was introduced by the 91st CPR update running from 12 September 2017 to 30 November 2017 to enable selected legal representatives to issue unspecified (and specified) claims at the CCMCC using the CC Online website and with the representatives effecting service.

Your Family Court Needs You! The acute shortage of family beaks is being addressed by changing the rules. Direct recruitment into the Family Court has started for new magistrates within London, Birmingham and Greater Manchester before roll out more widely. For the initial period, the eligibility criteria have been relaxed so that no role or occupation is being explicitly prohibited. Presumably, spouse beaters need not apply.

Worth the wait? For those granted a decree nisi of divorce in the April–June 2017 quarter, the average time from petition presentation to that point of ecstasy was 23.3 weeks.

Remember that the long awaited pre-action protocol for debt came into force on 1 October 2017 and

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

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Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Healthcare and sports legal team expands in the north west

NEWS
Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
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