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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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