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26 July 2024
Issue: 8081 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Family , Expert Witness , Civil way
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NLJ this week: Controversy on experts, matrimonialisation & counting words

Judges are urged to keep it brief, former district judge Stephen Gold writes in this week’s Civil way

The reason is the cost of obtaining a transcript will depend on the length measured by the number of folios.

Gold explains the situation more fully in his column, and advises that litigators thinking of putting in a request for brevity ‘try out this direction at your next case management conference and see whether you get your Green Book slapped’.

Gold also covers reductions to the special account interest rate as well as recent case law on ‘matrimonialisation’, and raises an alert on the single joint expert.

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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