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25 November 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8004 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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Civil way: 25 November 2022

Portal welcomes counsel; charity relaxations; Wales wins in extra time; Mostyn J overcomes authority; Parliament tough on CPR.

LEGAL LITE BITES

Compulsory eye strain for DJs 80% of practitioners do it. It’s on the cards that you will all be doing it by 31 January 2023, by when it will be mandatory to use the digital portal for issue of all contested financial remedy applications. And just introduced is the facility for an instructed barrister who has got themselves registered to MyHMCTS to have access to the portal. Their solicitor should add them in. If the barrister is directly instructed, they will need to notify their local financial remedy court of the instruction which will secure access for them.

‘You’re ours—for peanuts’ Exclusivity terms in workers’ contracts restrict their ability to take on additional work with other employers. These terms are already unenforceable in zero-hours contracts. Unenforceability is extended as from 5 December 2022 to contracts which provide a net weekly wage which is no more than the lower earnings

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NEWS
The controversial Courts and Tribunals Bill has passed its second reading by 304 votes to 203, despite concerted opposition from the legal profession
The presumption of parental involvement is to be abolished, the Lord Chancellor David Lammy has confirmed
A highly experienced chartered legal executive has been prevented from representing her client in financial remedies proceedings, in a case that highlights the continued fallout from Mazur
Plans to commandeer 50%-75% of the interest on lawyers’ client accounts to fund the justice system overlook the cost and administrative burden of this on small and medium law firms, CILEX has warned
Lawyers have been asked for their views on proposals to change the penalties for assaulting a police officer
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