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NLJ this week: A box unticked, a pilot unfinished (Civil way)

11 August 2023
Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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A confusing name has been chosen for the court office in Northampton, seasoned NLJ columnist & former District Judge Stephen Gold notes in this week’s Civil Way. Fortunately, Gold was not foxed—he knows his way around the civil justice system too well

This week, Gold recounts a warning tale in which failure to tick the right box took a pair of litigants all the way to the Court of Appeal. While the absence of a tick in the jurisdiction contest box was ‘not fatal’ in this case, the decision was ‘case-specific’ so a future mishap might fall the other way. Gold writes: ‘Warning, though: there was a possibility that a tick absence could be taken as an acceptance of jurisdiction.’

Gold also covers the scrapping of legal aid means testing for family representation for under-18-year-old applicants from 3 August, as well as access to the criminal records of notaries public, extensions to family law pilots, and much more. Solid Gold and always civil.

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NEWS
Michael Zander KC, Emeritus Professor at LSE, tracks the turbulent passage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through the House of Lords in this week's issue of NLJ. Two marathon debates drew contributions from nearly 200 peers, split between support, opposition and conditional approval
Alistair Mills of Landmark Chambers reflects on the Human Rights Act 1998 a quarter-century after it came into force, in this week's issue of NLJ
In his latest Civil Way column for NLJ, Stephen Gold surveys a raft of procedural changes and quirky disputes shaping civil practice. His message is clear: civil practitioners must brace for continual tweaks, unexpected contentions and rising costs in everyday litigation
Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar 2025 and joint head of chambers at 4PB, sets out in this week's NLJ how the profession will respond to Baroness Harriet Harman KC’s review into bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct at the Bar
In a very special tribute in this week's NLJ, David Burrows reflects on the retirement of Patrick Allen, co-founder of Hodge Jones & Allen, whose career epitomised the heyday of legal aid
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