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05 February 2021
Issue: 7919 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal services
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NLJ this week: Guideline hourly rates

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The much-anticipated consultation on potential changes to Guideline Hourly Rates runs until the end of March 2021.

Writing in NLJ this week, in the first of a three-part series, Stewarts partner and chair of the Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors, Julian Chamberlayne casts a critical eye on the Civil Justice Council report, the circumstances surrounding it and its methodology.

He writes that the fact Grade D rates outside London 1 have risen only modestly ‘perhaps illustrates the suspicion that assessed rates are some way out of line with the real market rates that litigants pay’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Foot Anstey—Jasmine Olomolaiye

Foot Anstey—Jasmine Olomolaiye

Investigations and corporate crime expert joins as partner

Fieldfisher—Mark Shaw

Fieldfisher—Mark Shaw

Veteran funds specialist joins investment funds team

Taylor Wessing—Stephen Whitfield

Taylor Wessing—Stephen Whitfield

Firm enhances competition practice with London partner hire

NEWS
Could an online LLM in Commercial and Technology Law expand your career options?
The controversial Courts and Tribunals Bill has passed its second reading by 304 votes to 203, despite concerted opposition from the legal profession
The presumption of parental involvement is to be abolished, the Lord Chancellor David Lammy has confirmed
A highly experienced chartered legal executive has been prevented from representing her client in financial remedies proceedings, in a case that highlights the continued fallout from Mazur
Plans to commandeer 50%-75% of the interest on lawyers’ client accounts to fund the justice system overlook the cost and administrative burden of this on small and medium law firms, CILEX has warned
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