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18 November 2020
Issue: 7911 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , International justice
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Global goals

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A global forum of Law Societies has been established, with the aim of promoting the rule of law and access to justice

The Law Societies’ Compact & Forum for SDG16 launched this week, hosted and coordinated by the Law Society of England & Wales and the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency, with additional input from the Paris Bar and French National Bar Council.

The Compact and Forum will pursue United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, which includes access to justice for all and building effective, accountable institutions. It aims to connect law societies and member lawyers across the world so they can collaborate on justice projects and in holding governments to account for failures to defend the rule of law.

Membership will include access to bespoke training, research, specialist expertise and input into working groups. 

Issue: 7911 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , International justice
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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The 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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