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NLJ this week: Money, money, debt interest on costs

12 July 2024
Issue: 8079 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Costs , Employment , Legal aid focus , Libel
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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.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

mfg Solicitors—Brian Hession

mfg Solicitors—Brian Hession

Birmingham commercial property team bolstered by partner hire

STEP—Sara Morgan

STEP—Sara Morgan

Fieldfisher director re-elected as deputy chair of England Wales committee

Osborne Clarke—Andrew Eaton

Osborne Clarke—Andrew Eaton

Restructuring and insolvency expert joins as partner

NEWS
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors examine recent international relocation cases where allegations of domestic abuse shaped outcomes
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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