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Civil way: 16 September 2022

16 September 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7994 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Insolvency fees alert; Overseas landowners targeted; Divorce guidance; CPR changes: second dose; Family: latest rule update

HUMUNGOUS SAVING: HURRY!

The Insolvency Service was after an increase in deposits payable on creditors’ petitions for bankruptcy and company winding up respectively from £990 to £1,500 and £1,600 to £2,600. What the Insolvency Service wants, the Insolvency Service usually gets. And it has got it in the form of the Insolvency Proceedings (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2022 (SI 2022/929) attacking petitions presented on or after 1 November 2022. Articles 2 (b) and (c) of the 2016 fees order (SI 2016/692) are amended. A cunning way to keep petition numbers down.


TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Hello and welcome to the open Register of Overseas Entities which is held out of Companies House and has been set up under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022. It was rushed into life with more than a nod towards our oligarch friends on 1 August 2022 (see commencement SI 2022/876 for most of Pt 1) with other provisions

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort

360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan

360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan

Investment banking veteran appointed as chairman to drive global growth

NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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