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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

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
The controversial Mazur ruling, which caused widespread uncertainty about the role of non-solicitors in litigation work, has been overturned on appeal
Two landmark social media cases in the US could influence social media regulation in the UK, lawyers predict
Barristers have urged the government to set up Nightingale-style specialist courts, with jury trials, to prioritise rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse trials
Victims of violent crimes who suffer life-changing injuries receive less than half the financial support today than those in the 1990s, according to a senior personal injury lawyer
Rising numbers of cases, an increase in litigants in person and an overall lack of investment is piling pressure on the family court, the Law Society has warned
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