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Legal definitions 2018

13 September 2018 / Dominic Regan
Issue: 7808 / Categories: Features
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Dominic Regan takes on the urgent task of updating some legal terms & shares some early examples

Alternative dispute resolution

Once seen as a bit soppy, it is now of deadly importance. Huge, adverse costs sanctions will be visited upon those who unreasonably reject the process. And it stops judges having to judge (see below).

Arbitrator

A self-appointed position secured by all ‘retiring’ Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges. A reasonable period elapses before they announce their new occupation, typically three days. It is absolutely not about fees, first class flights, and being abroad during the grim British winter.

Commercial dispute

My bill hasn’t been paid.

International commercial dispute

My bill hasn’t been paid by a Russian.

Costs management

One specialist who attended the Civil Justice Council LASPO Review on 29 June 2018 declared that he had been failed by budgeting in 4,000 cases! A costs lawyer complained about the complexity and consequent expense of the exercise. One judge pretends it does not exist.

Court fees

Legalised extortion which the mafia wishes

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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