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16 February 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8059 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 16 February 2024

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Tribunal fees coming; Child support fee going; The value of a sanction; New CPR rules and PD update

LAWBITES

Employment tribunal takeaway Fees are returning to employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The government is consulting on a ‘modest’ £55 for claim issue (excepting cases required to establish an entitlement to a National Insurance Fund payment) and on an appeal. ‘Help with Fees’ might disapply or reduce. Consultation closes on 25 March so expect a draft response by breakfast the next day.

Child support giveaway The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) could do with a bit more business. Since the 2012 scheme got going, take up has been lower than predicted. The proportion of separated families with CMS arrangements stood at 19% at the last count. So how can more parents with care be encouraged to pile in with an application? Scrap the £20 application fee, which is currently only waivable for victims of domestic violence and the under-19s. That’s what they are doing, with help from the Child Support (Management of Payments

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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
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Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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