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20 September 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8086 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Employment , Family , Brexit , EU
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Civil way: 20 September 2024

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Plenty of tips; Less conduct on divorce; Latest CPR changes; 171st CPR PD update

TIPPING MENU

Appetisers If you fail to recognise your waiter or waitress, it will be because of the broad smile on their face. The man choking at the corner table is an employment tribunal judge, whose friend has just texted with the advice that if he is going to retire, doing it within the next couple of months would be wise. And the solicitor behind you who has ordered the 25-course tasting menu with recommended wines for each is celebrating the addition of tipping claims to their niche practice of flight delay, PPI and car finance commission (which could yet come a cropper) litigation. Sitting at their table with a calculator resting on their amuse-bouche and a pen clip winking from their breast pocket is an accountant who has designs on offering independent tronc services to eating establishments.

Starters The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 comes fully into force on 1 October

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Sidley—James Inness

Sidley—James Inness

Partner joins capital markets team in London office

Haynes Boone—William Cecil

Haynes Boone—William Cecil

Firm announces appointment of partner as UK general counsel

Devonshires—Nicholas Barrows

Devonshires—Nicholas Barrows

Firm appoints first chief marketing officer to drive growth strategy

NEWS
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NLJ this week: CPR tweak closes third-party disclosure gap
A seemingly dry procedural update may prove potent. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold explains that new CPR 31.12A—part of the 193rd update—fills a ‘lacuna’ exposed in McLaren Indy v Alpa Racing
NLJ this week: Court of Appeals wrestles with Mazur fallout
The long-running Mazur saga edged towards its finale as the Court of Appeal heard arguments on whether non-solicitors can ‘conduct litigation’. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School reports from a packed courtroom where 16 wigs watched Nick Bacon KC argue that Mr Justice Sheldon had failed to distinguish between ‘tasks and responsibilities’
NLJ this week: Appeal court reins in ‘wrong defendant’ switcheroo

The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Driving test fraudsters steer towards jail
Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
NLJ this week: Deepfakes demand data law muscle
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
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