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12 July 2024
Issue: 8079 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Costs , Employment , Legal aid focus , Libel
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NLJ this week: Money, money, debt interest on costs

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Legal aid is hard to get, but the numbers applying for exceptional funding are still low. In this week’s ‘Civil way’, NLJ columnist and former district judge Stephen Gold urges lawyers to apply

He writes: ‘Figures just out for the first quarter of this year show that there were only 910 exceptional funding applications. Of those determined, 77% were granted… Get those application numbers up, folks. Particularly in family.’

Gold covers an array of other topics, including the impact of silence in the face of an offer to mediate, some useful nuggets from the fire and rehire code of practice, and judicial input on the point from which an order for costs attracts judgment debt interest (amounting to several hundred thousand pounds in this instance).

Gold rounds up with a cautionary tale on malicious falsehood.

Issue: 8079 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Costs , Employment , Legal aid focus , Libel
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