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02 July 2020
Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Legal aid focus , Legal services
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NLJ this week: Picking up the pieces

The widespread misery caused to society’s poorest by the COVID-19 crisis is highlighted in this week's issue by Keith Wilding, a retired fee-paid tribunal judge, and Sue Bent, chief executive of the Central England Law Centre

The Central England Law Centre (CELC), which has centres in Birmingham and Coventry, is one of the many advice agencies around the country doing its best to cope with the social fallout of the pandemic. It has seen an escalation of referrals for employment advice and domestic violence. While evictions have been paused during the pandemic, CELC staff predict a ‘bulge’ in cases once they resume.

Wilding and Bent warn that the vulnerable will not ‘bounce back’. Read the article in full here.

@CELCCov

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Switalskis—five appointments

Switalskis—five appointments

Firm expands national abuse compensation team

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices

Carey Olsen—five promotions

Carey Olsen—five promotions

Carey Olsen promotes five lawyers to the partnership

NEWS
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
Material obtained through US discovery applications may have a much longer legal life than many litigants realise
English courts are developing a distinctly practical approach to sanctions disputes arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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