THIS ISSUE
Shah Karim presents a change management strategy to maximise your technology investment
Roger Smith casts his eye over the options to meet unmet legal need & finds some chinks of light
Roger Smith reports back from a Legal Services Consumer Panel conference on unmet legal need, in this week’s NLJ
The latest twists and turns to the law on buildings insurance, bankruptcy orders and divorce pilots come under the scrutiny of former District Judge Stephen Gold in this week’s Civil way
A variety of measures are available to assist in the treatment of vulnerable witnesses and parties in the coronial jurisdiction, Tim Suter, partner, Fieldfisher, and Sophie Cartwright KC, Deans Court Chambers, write in this week’s NLJ. Suter and Cartwright suggest the coronial jurisdiction consider best practice from the civil, family and criminal jurisdiction
The decision by the government to make the Lucy Letby Inquiry non-statutory and then to change its mind and make the inquiry statutory is the subject of Red Lion Chambers barristers Sailesh Mehta’s and Tom Davies’s article in this week’s NLJ
A limited shelf-life could be the fate of some aspects of the Supreme Court judgment on holiday pay in Chief Constable of Police in Northern Ireland v Agnew
Asylum seekers cannot be sent to Rwanda for processing, the Supreme Court has held in a unanimous judgment
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has arrested seven individuals and carried out searches across nine sites, as part of a criminal investigation into collapsed law firm Axiom Ince and £66m of missing client money
Applications for divorce, probate and certain Court of Protection orders are among 202 court fees that could rise by 10% next March
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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