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Civil way: 22 June 2018

22 June 2018
Issue: 7798 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Wanted: judges! Packages explode. Watch the threats. Secrecy law tightened.

IT COULD BE YOU

Employment tribunal business has increased by 90% since fee abolition which means trouble. You would have thought they might have introduced some rational fees, abolished the bookends, sold all venues off to Primark and Costa and convened future hearings at ACAS canteens. But no. They are recruiting for 54 full-time equivalent employment judge vacancies. You have until 2 July 2018 to apply. Previous judicial experience is not a must and legal executive fellows are eligible for appointment. If that doesn’t grab you then recruitment as a recorder might. The current Judicial Appointments Commission exercise to hire 150 recorders opened three days ago. Be ready to have your lectern or Archbold confiscated by court security on your first day.

NEW PACKAGE DELIVERY

The Package Travel Directive (EU) 2015/2302 has to be implemented by 1 July 2018. It will be implemented on 1 July 2018 and apply throughout the UK to agreements made on or after that date. Phew. The Package Travel and Linked Travel

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
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)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
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
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