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Civil way: 14 June 2013

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

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins

Kadie Bennett, senior associate at Anthony Collins and chair of the Resolution West Midlands Group, discusses her long-standing passion for family law and calls for unity in the profession

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch

Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

Healthcare and sports legal team expands in the north west

NEWS
Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
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