THIS ISSUE
The government is planning ‘an independent review into the operation of the Human Rights Act’, which will take place ‘in due course’, the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC has confirmed in a letter replying to Harriet Harman, Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Legal safeguards on private prosecutions need to be strengthened, MPs have said in a report prompted by the Post Office sub postmasters’ scandal
Proposals to reform the ‘unnecessarily complex, inconsistent, outdated and inefficient’ law of search warrants have been set out by the Law Commission
Some criminal barristers are being paid less than the national minimum wage of £6.45 per hour, according to the Bar Council
Legal action has been launched against the government for abandoning planning permission requirements for 5G mobile phone masts, antennae and cell towers
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck
Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family
Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale
DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council
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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