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06 September 2024
Issue: 8084 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Litigation funding , In Court
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NLJ this week: Stellar careers & predictions on costs budgeting

Bookies’ favourite? Professor Dominic Regan, aka ‘The insider’ tips a judge as a likely candidate for the top job of Chief Justice at a later date. Read this week’s column in NLJ to find out who

Regan, of City Law School, also laments the lost legislative opportunity to reverse the PACCAR decision on litigation funding, noting: ‘Disputes worth billions are currently in no man’s land.’ However, he expresses confidence in the Court of Appeal’s handling of the issue.

The Insider also covers the latest ‘noises’ on costs budgeting, and is impressed by the ‘exactitude’ of a judge’s order, recently featured in a High Court case. Regan writes: ‘Such clarity is a joy to perceive.’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Firm announces appointment of next chair

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Director joins corporate team from the US

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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