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29 March 2024
Issue: 8065 / Categories: Legal News , Litigation funding , Procedure & practice , In Court
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NLJ this week: The Lords deliver the goods; plus the ‘ultimate’ late settlement

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Professor Dominic Regan aka The insider cheers the arrival in the House of Lords of a Bill to reverse the effects of PACCAR, in this week’s NLJ

He notes the dire warnings and grim predictions on access to funding following the Supreme Court’s decision last year—hopefully now to be resolved.

Regan writes: The true stroke of genius is clause 1(4), which provides that the amendments are to be treated as always having had effect. Isn’t retrospective legislation wonderful!’

Regan, of City Law School, also relays the latest on fixed recoverable costs and reveals his discovery of ‘the ultimate late settlement of a claim in English legal history’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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