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NLJ this week: Social housing, Cafcass, language & the divorce that never was

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20 October 2023
Issue: 8045 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice
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Former district judge Stephen Gold is on form in this week’s Civil way, literally as well as figuratively, as he reports on updates to’N181’ as a result of the fixed recoverable costs reforms

Gold predicts a rise in the fees recoverable from debtors by the end of the year. He provides useful insight on the Cafcass ‘allocation hub’ (or the freeze on less urgent cases to allow the system to catch up with demand). He reports on a case concerning the need for a witness statement to be in the maker’s own language.

In a bumper two-page Civil way, Gold also covers the impact of a recent Social Housing Regulation, and shares his reflections on the divorce decree nisi-that-never-was in the case of Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf. 

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