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28 January 2018 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7771 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 2 February 2018

‘Cappuccino to declare’; Court of Protection Rules, OK?; Shy on Fraud; New FPRs.

RAGBAG

Full bodied but a bit oaky HMC&TS has recently updated its policy on searching liquids brought into courts and tribunals. Anyone turning up with a plastic drinks container or an opened can or carton will be asked to take a sip and taste the liquid with a view to proving (beyond all reasonable doubt or on the balance of probabilities depending on the nature of the business conducted at the venue and with a right headache where both criminal and civil work is listed there) that the contents are not prohibited.

Adoption matching Successfully matching children up for adoption with prospective adopters and doing so more speedily should result from the Adoption and Children Act Register (Search and Inspection) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/978) which came into force on 2 November 2017. The register of relevant children will be accessible to approved adopters as to certain prescribed information—nothing sufficient to identify—for ‘adopter-led matching’ which will often lead to consideration of children

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson appoints Vicky Tomlinson as Head of Independent Health and Care

DWF—five appointments

DWF—five appointments

DWF further strengthens major injury and casualty offering with new partner and four directors from DAC Beachcroft

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis strengthens Grimsby child care team

NEWS
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
Arbitration may be private, but its confidentiality is no impenetrable shield. Writing in NLJ this week, James Glaysher of Kingsley Napley examines when courts will permit arbitral material to surface in open litigation
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

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