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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

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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