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10 November 2017
Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Wellbeing hub

Barristers are to be offered extra help with tough ethical questions that arise in the course of their work, along with guidance on IT and equality and diversity. The Bar Council has launched a new website, the Ethics & Practice Hub, to help barristers and chambers with these issues. The Hub, at www.barcouncilethics.co.uk, can be used on mobile devices, and will supplement the Bar Council’s Ethical Enquiries Service. Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, said the council’s Ethical Enquiries Service had received more than 6,500 calls and emails from barristers in the last year.

Meanwhile, some 30 chambers and Bar organisations received a Bar Council Certificate of Recognition for good wellbeing practice last week. The second round of applications opened this week and closes on 1 February 2018.

Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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