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13 June 2013
Issue: 7564 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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Civil way: 14 June 2013

Claim early for sacking, overriding objective strikes, well done Phipson & financial remedy abuse

NEW GROUND FOR NEXT SEASON

Stand by for the start up of the Property Chamber—a conglomeration of rent assessment committees which sit, among others, as leasehold valuation tribunals (“Hey they deal with service charges, don’t they?”), agricultural land tribunals and the land registry adjudicator—on 1 July 2013. This will be the seventh chamber of the First Tier Tribunal. The new Property Chamber will operate on one set of procedural rules (see the Tribunal Procedure (First-Tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/1169) to which, with others, we threaten we shall return). If you don’t believe any of this, get stuck into the Amendments to Sch 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Order 2003 (SI 2013/1034) (phew) and the Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (SI 2013/1036). 

And why not raise some additional revenue when you are opening a new Chamber? No, of course they won’t be charging for use of Chamber loos and rumours of a new

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Switalskis—five appointments

Switalskis—five appointments

Firm expands national abuse compensation team

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices

Carey Olsen—five promotions

Carey Olsen—five promotions

Carey Olsen promotes five lawyers to the partnership

NEWS
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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