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Civil way: 15 March 2024

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15 March 2024 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8063 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Employment awards up; Annulment discretion; Supreme 40% hike; Opponent’s costs budget relevant; Northampton troubles; Exceeding statement of value; Manchester defeats London; Company law reforms

LAW BITES

‘Hold on boss’ Employment tribunal awards are increasing by 8.9% where the axe, or other appropriate event, falls on or after 6 April 2024. The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2024 (SI 2024/213) does the annual inflationary favour to employees

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NEWS
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Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Billionaire divorce saga ‘lifeline’
The ex-wife of a Russian billionaire has won her bid to bring her financial relief claim in London, in a unanimous Court of Appeal decision
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