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19 February 2018 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7776 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 19 February 2018

Keep 2 March 2018 clear; Enjoy 93rd CPR update; Hours to escape new family forms.

WANTED: PRESIDENT

‘The Lord Chief, Baroness Hale, Lord Kakkar and the two lay commissioners will see you now. You’ve brought your laptop and mouse with you, I hope.’

Actually, demonstrating your computer skills will not be one of the humiliations to which you will be subjected if invited for interview to be conducted on 2 March 2018 for the position of President of the Family Division (salary £217,409 pa) but anyone opposed to on-line divorce should keep that under their Rayden. You would be taking over from Sir James Munby this summer. If tempted to apply, you must give notice of intent by 1pm on 22 January 2018. They’ll be looking for citation of at least two of your more lucid judgments and a speech or an article which ideally has not been plagiarized. And no more than 1,500 words on what are the greatest issues facing the

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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