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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

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The next generation is inheriting more than assets—it is inheriting complexity. Writing in NLJ this week, experts from Penningtons Manches Cooper chart how global mobility, blended families and evolving values are reshaping private wealth advice
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming sport, from recruitment and training to officiating and fan engagement. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dr Ian Blackshaw of Valloni Attorneys at Law explains how AI now influences everything from injury prevention to tactical decisions, with clubs using tools such as ‘TacticAI’ to gain competitive edges
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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