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28 June 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8077 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Property , Family , Employment , Pensions
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Civil way: 28 June 2024

Lecture saving tip; At a Glance goes turquoise; Tribunal reasoning; Knotweed at Supreme Court

LAWBITES

That will do very nicely The limit changes for debt relief orders (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 19 April 2024) have suffered some slippage but bestowed more time to clock up a bit more on the credit cards. They come into force today—on 28 June 2024—with considerable help from SIs 2024/622 and 2024/626.

And there was no light You should find illuminating the latest edition of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ ‘Rights of Light professional standard’, which was effective as from 1 June 2024. It is aimed at the approach to be adopted by experienced surveyors practising in this field (did someone say, ‘of vision’?), but litigants can outwit their expert with a read.

The impossible dream? If you are seeking allocation of a financial remedies application to High Court judge level, then Mr Justice Peel’s guidance of 21 May 2024 will do you good. It clarifies

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

NEWS
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 
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
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
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’
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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