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Civil way: 20 September 2024

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

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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