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17 November 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8049 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 17 November 2023

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

Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Weightmans appoint new Chief Technology Officer

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Mishcon de Reya announces trainee retention rate of 86%

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton

Sackers welcomes two new Graduate Solicitor Apprentices

NEWS
LexisNexis is delighted to announce the launch of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2027, celebrating outstanding achievement, innovation and impact across the legal profession
The Legal Services Board (LSB) is to take further enforcement action against the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), setting additional performance targets and ‘intensifying’ its oversight, it has said
Regulators missed several opportunities to intervene in PM Law Group before it collapsed, an independent review by City firm Jenner & Block has found
An employer’s vicarious liability for the alleged torts of an employee cannot be transferred by TUPE, the Court of Appeal has confirmed
Tiered fees of up to £1,500 for Legal Ombudsman (LeO) cases could leave firms with little option but to pay out, lawyers have warned
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