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Civil way: 17 November 2023

17 November 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8049 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Business as usual; New liability for employers; Latest FPR PD update; Bankruptcy annulment; Mission for no commission

LAWBITES

How’s it going? The Civil National Business Centre whose responsibilities include the issue of paper claims and enforcement applications has had time to bed in. The latest published weekly performance figures for paper business show that the number of working days from lodgement to issue etc is 11 for a new claim. For an acknowledgment of service,29; before issuing a directions questionnaire on paper after filing of defence,18 and for then processing the filed questionnaire, 38; from receipt of an application for order or comment being typed, 46; for a new ‘Help with Fees’ application,10; and for a charging order application, 23 and drawing a final charging order, 21. For litigation practitioners’ time off recovering from stress,14 days. For litigants causing a disturbance while protesting at delays, conditional discharge.

Follow the leader Family Division liaison judges have been rehandled. They are now to be known as family presiding judges, if you please,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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