THIS ISSUE
The Civil Justice Council is consulting on what role pre-action protocols (PAPs) should play in the civil justice system
Eversheds Sutherland and Osborne Clarke are to offer all trainees the opportunity to work part-time, as part of a Lawyers with Disabilities Division (LDD) project to promote part-time qualifying opportunities
Investigations into judges behaving badly would be speeded up and more details made public, under a consultation launched this week by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice
An online portal to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities has been launched by the charity LawWorks, (the solicitors pro bono group)
Commercial property lawyers are keen to adopt AI (artificial intelligence) or automation software but have encountered a series of obstacles, research has found
The Windrush Compensation Scheme is over-complex, lacks independence, suffers from delays and inconsistencies and is administered by inexperienced caseworkers, legal rights group JUSTICE has said, in its report, 'Reforming the Windrush Compensation Scheme’.
A passenger cannot use the fact they were too drunk to realise the driver was drunk as an excuse to avoid or reduce their contributory negligence, the Court of Appeal has held
The Supreme Court has called a halt to a massive class action against Google over a data protection breach
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu
Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department
Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus
Firm announces appointment of next chair
Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker
Director joins corporate team from the US
NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection?
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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