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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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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