Stephen Gold

NLJ columnist

Stephen Gold has many years’ experience both as a recently retired civil and family judge and, before that, as a practising solicitor. He is an NLJ columnist and has written our civil way column for more than 30 years and is the author of Breaking Law – The Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights & Winning in Court or Losing Well.

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Latest CPR changes; latest FPR changes; new Official Solicitor form; new standard orders.

Stephen Gold discovers a criminal poet, Clerkenwell solicitors cut up rough over PACE pay, & the NLJ gives the thumbs up to Spider Woman

Insurers lashed by whipping; special account up; mousing to midnight; equity demands detriment; truth in the CoP; posties deemed to work; words to take your heart away

In 1975, Stephen Gold encounters the curious case of the cheap bottle of Château Lafite, the slowest way to send a fax, and a solicitor with a computer

Stephen Gold is high on the 60s’ archives as the British Legal Association goes to war with the Law Society, and the Bar Council fails to keep up with fashion trends

Interest cut; family money online grab; leave penal notice to court; debt relief reversed.

Portal welcomes counsel; charity relaxations; Wales wins in extra time; Mostyn J overcomes authority; Parliament tough on CPR.

Stephen Gold discovers how in 1954 the courts faced the trial backlog, hears a Hampshire burr, and comes across marmalade pudding at the Law Society

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

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Conveyancers celebrate U-turn over mortgage handbook fee

Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook

Are you suited to a career in prosecution?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors

LSB marks Mazur homework

Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)

NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?

The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness

NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’

A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law

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Stephen Gold

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison