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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

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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
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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Your magistrates’ court needs you!
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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