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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

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
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