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NLJ this week: Fees, fees, clinical negligence and sanctions

16 February 2024
Issue: 8059 / Categories: Legal News , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Former district judge Stephen Gold reports on what’s coming and what’s going (tribunal fees, child support fee) in this week’s Civil Way

Is there a hint of cynicism in Gold’s comment, ‘Consultation closes on 25 March so expect a draft response by breakfast the next day’?

Gold covers the fact the ‘much heralded change in admitted clinical negligence claim allocation has come about… To escape the multi-track, the admission will have to come in the defendant’s pre-action protocol response letter’.

He also considers changes to the makeup of employment tribunals, case management conferences in the intermediate track, and sanctions for late timekeeping in court.

Issue: 8059 / Categories: Legal News , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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