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28 March 2013
Issue: 7554 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 29 March 2013

Jacksonchat, tribunal rules & child's play

JACKCHAT

Up to speed on Jackson? Tackle it over the weekend. It’s all effectively happening on Tuesday. Worth bearing in mind that the compensation limit under the ombudsman scheme run by the Office of Legal Complaints has risen from £30,000 to £50,000 as from 1 February 2013. And take a look at the lovely model directions finally up on www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/standard-directions for multi-track claims and incorporate the suggested warning notice—“You must comply with the terms imposed upon you by this order otherwise your case is liable to be struck out or some other sanction imposed. If you cannot comply you are expected to make formal application to the court before any deadline imposed upon you expires.”

Inevitably, there will be satellite litigation and the Court of Appeal will tackle cases reaching it through a coterie of judges including Lord Dyson MR and Stephen Richards LJ. At least one of the judges will sit on all the important appeals which should aid consistency. 

Jackson strike XV: and in the meantime

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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