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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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Trowers & Hamlins—Paul Batchelor

Trowers & Hamlins—Paul Batchelor

Trowers Hamlins strengthens Birmingham Office with senior corporate partner hire

Birketts—trainee appointments

Birketts—trainee appointments

Birketts welcomes largest ever Trainee Solicitor cohort for 2026

Sidley—James Sherlock

Sidley—James Sherlock

Sidley Expands Private Equity Practice With James Sherlock in London

NEWS
MPs cannot simply resign their Commons seats. Instead, they take a nominal Crown office, usually the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead, which disqualifies them from sitting
The Thirlwall Inquiry has exposed a ‘complete failure’ to protect babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, but its recommendations must now be put into practice
A divorced woman has secured funding to participate in her former husband’s inquest after the Legal Aid Agency reconsidered repeated refusals
Developers in areas with poorly performing councils can apply directly to the Planning Inspectorate for permission under section 62A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
More than 500 former rugby players can pursue brain injury claims despite serious failures to disclose documents ordered by the High Court
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