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Civil way: 2 February 2024

02 February 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8057 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Flexi gets flexier; Unpaid carer boost; Latest CPR update; Exclusion clause blues; Ombudspals

LAWBITES

Fast Flexi The requirement for 26 continuous weeks in the job before entitlement can arise to make a flexible working application disappears on 6 April 2024. It will be possible for an employee to apply from the moment they have donned their new uniform, tasted their first brew or drafted their first credit hire claim form. The Flexible Working (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1328) are responsible for abandoning the minimum employment duration condition. Alongside them, the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 will be brought fully into force and supported by an Acas-drafted revised code of practice, which has recently been published.

Unpaid leave reward for carers The Carer’s Leave Act 2023 came fully into force on 4 December 2023 through SI 2023/1283. By way of amendment to the Employment Rights Act 1996, it gives employees who are unpaid carers the statutory right to up to five days’ unpaid leave a year in support of their

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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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