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Civil way: 10 January 2014

10 January 2014
Issue: 7589 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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Child sort-of-support, credit hire defence win, pay cut for experts & Mitchell: what else?

CHILD’S PAY

The Child Support Agency (CSA) is dying: the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is alive and running two miles a day as from 25 November 2013 with more than a little help from SI 2013/2947, the title of which is so long that we will spare you its recital. Indeed, the CMS is now taking all applications for child maintenance and applying the so-called 2008 scheme (see “Civil way”, 163 NLJ 7569, p13 and 163 NLJ 7573, p 11). The CSA will not touch a single new case but will continue to manage existing cases under the 1993 and 2000 schemes until the last rites are administered once existing cases have been gradually closed down over the next couple of years. Parents will be given six months’ prior notice that the CSA will be shot of them and invited to make their own arrangements or to apply to the CMS.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
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