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NLJ this week: Say ‘cheese’, speak up & prepare to pay more

01 December 2023
Issue: 8051 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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There’s good news for the family album, in this week’s Civil way, with the news that ‘those delightful post-adoption order photographs at court with child, family and judge’ may be allowed after all

Former district judge Stephen Gold, writing in this week’s NLJ, reports that a statutory instrument ‘rushed into force after 96 years… disapplies the prohibition for adoption “ceremony” stills where taken after the proceedings and authorised by the court and undertaken in accordance with the court’s instructions’. But that’s not all.

Gold also covers the news that junior barristers are to be encouraged to speak more in court as well as defective drafting at the Ministry of Justice, hefty fee hikes in spring and an important business tenancy case. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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