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07 August 2008
Issue: 7333 / Categories: Legal News , Constitutional law
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News in brief

A new Act designed to remove pointless and obsolete laws from the statute book has received Royal Assent. The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008, drafted by the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission, repeals 260 whole Acts and part repeals 68 others. Laws swept away under the new Act include some relating to tolls for turnpikes and to the financing of London workhouses— including one at Wapping mentioned by Charles Dickens in The Uncommercial Traveller.

Issue: 7333 / Categories: Legal News , Constitutional law
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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos
he 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
NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
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
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
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
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
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
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
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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