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Civil way: 22 June 2018

22 June 2018
Issue: 7798 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Wanted: judges! Packages explode. Watch the threats. Secrecy law tightened.

IT COULD BE YOU

Employment tribunal business has increased by 90% since fee abolition which means trouble. You would have thought they might have introduced some rational fees, abolished the bookends, sold all venues off to Primark and Costa and convened future hearings at ACAS canteens. But no. They are recruiting for 54 full-time equivalent employment judge vacancies. You have until 2 July 2018 to apply. Previous judicial experience is not a must and legal executive fellows are eligible for appointment. If that doesn’t grab you then recruitment as a recorder might. The current Judicial Appointments Commission exercise to hire 150 recorders opened three days ago. Be ready to have your lectern or Archbold confiscated by court security on your first day.

NEW PACKAGE DELIVERY

The Package Travel Directive (EU) 2015/2302 has to be implemented by 1 July 2018. It will be implemented on 1 July 2018 and apply throughout the UK to agreements made on or after that date. Phew. The Package Travel and Linked Travel

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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