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20 May 2022
Issue: 7979 / Categories: Legal News , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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NLJ this week: Banks under attack & an unpopular pilot

In this week’s Civil Way, former District Judge Stephen Gold covers the latest in a David and Goliath battle between a couple duped out of their life savings and the all-powerful Barclays Bank. Where does responsibility lie?

Gold also covers a new responsibility on mental health units resulting from a tragic case where a patient was disproportionately restrained, changes to child maintenance and a small claims pilot of which ‘many will hope it proves to be a disaster. It envisages paper determination of a small claim without the parties’ consent. Condemnation to this horror will be discretionary…’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

mfg Solicitors—Samantha Evans

mfg Solicitors—Samantha Evans

mfg Solicitors strengthens Contentious Probate team with new appointment

Ocean Legal—Brodie Collar

Ocean Legal—Brodie Collar

Ocean Legal welcomes new associate Brodie Collar

Ward Hadaway—Helen Badger & Gemma Lynch

Ward Hadaway—Helen Badger & Gemma Lynch

Ward Hadaway expands healthcare employment team with two partners

NEWS
Motor finance and consumer credit claims can be brought as a collective action or ‘omnibus’ claim, the Court of Appeal has held, in a landmark decision
Involving children as young as ten years old in the criminal justice system is ineffective, punishes disadvantage and acts as a catalyst to increase the likelihood of future offending, barristers have warned
The Crown Court backlog stabilised at the end of March, reducing by 37 cases to 80,061—a slight fall on the previous quarter but a 5% rise on the same quarter last year
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is taking former general counsel of the Post Office, Jane Elizabeth MacLeod, and another solicitor to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Businesses are operating in an increasingly volatile environment due to technology, geopolitical and regulatory threats, according to Clyde & Co’s annual corporate risk radar survey
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