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NLJ this week: Gold-en advice for judges from judges

02 May 2025
Issue: 8114 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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How do you write a letter to a child? Judges stumped about what to say and how to put it when explaining the outcome of proceedings to children have been issued with a helpful toolkit, writes former district judge Stephen Gold, in this week’s NLJ.

Gold’s column, 'Civil way', also highlights a disturbing discrepancy between the HMRC interest rate on tax due and the HMRC rate on repayment. Value for money?

He covers tax mitigation, business in the commercial courts and an insolvency protocol for consumer individual voluntary arrangement.

Gold also alerts readers to a helpful judgment setting out how a litigant in person should go about applying for permission to appeal. He writes: ‘Mr Justice Hayden deserves a medal… he has taken it upon himself to analyse the authorities on the CPR and FPR timing procedure for seeking that permission from the first-tier judge, and given abundant guidance.’ 
Issue: 8114 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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