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Civil way: 31 May 2024

31 May 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8073 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Family , Personal injury
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LAWBITES

Paper deceased As from 30 May 2024, professional representatives wishing to issue an employment tribunal claim online must do so using a MyHMCTS account, which could take up to five days to activate. And the new digital case management system (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 19 April 2024) has just hit London’s three offices and reaches Manchester on 3 June 2024.

Lest you forget The Family Division president has spoken a series of reminders within 10 May 2024 practice guidance swingingly entitled ‘Urgent applications, out of hours applications and bundles in the Family Division of the High Court.’ No prizes for guessing what it is about. A

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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