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12 October 2012
Issue: 7533 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 12 October 2012

Some criminal advocates only change their speeches to the jury and some family legal aid counsel can only afford to change their shirts once a year

CPR LOVE IN

Some criminal advocates only change their speeches to the jury and some family legal aid counsel can only afford to change their shirts once a year. With the Civil Procedure Rules 1988 you get at least two annual changes which are reactive to the tiniest revision in legislation. Even the odd piece of punctuation may be improved upon. The 59th CPR update got going on 1 October 2012. It takes in the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2012 (SI 2012/2208) and with certain new rules the oh so carefully considered use of the word “will” instead of “must” occurs because the rules committee believes that imposing a notional duty on the court to perform its individual non-discretionary functions with a “must” is, in general, unnecessary and, arguably, misleading. So the updates are caring and we will soon set about devising some big celebration

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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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