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25 February 2021
Issue: 7922 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil Way: 26 February 2021

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Legal aid fix; no emotion in Court of Appeal; latest CPR update.

THE FIX

Heaven forbid that the Legal Aid Agency should mess up with a civil application but it appears to accept this as a possibility. The evidence is in the establishment of its ‘Fix it’ service, following a successful pilot, which aims to correct its errors relating to civil merits, means and finance related matters at the earliest possible opportunity—the target is 24 hours—and thereby avoid an appeal. This represents a widening of the service which was limited to fast-track correction of errors stemming from the payment of bills. LiPs must keep out.

EMOTIVE LIMITATION

In December 2011 an oil spill occurred off the shore of Nigeria, lasting five to six hours before the offending pipeline was switched off and the oil stopped leaking into the sea. It is asserted that 27,800 individuals and 457 communities were affected. The issue for the Court of Appeal in Jalla v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2021] EWCA Civ

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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
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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’
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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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