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02 February 2024 / Stephen Gold
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Civil way: 2 February 2024

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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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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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