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NLJ this week: All rise at the Maidstone Orida

29 March 2024
Issue: 8065 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Former District Judge Stephen Gold delivers the goods in this week’s Civil way, with the latest on a family judge’s role in steering ‘warring parties’ away from court and into the hands of less adversarially focused professionals

Gold writes: ‘The Churchill decision on NCDR [non-court-dispute-resolution] is not to be thought as being of limited relevance to family proceedings. To make that assumption was unwise.’

His column also covers an extension to a family pilot, a rise in the compensation limit from £15,000 to £430,000 for Financial Ombudsman Service complaints, a change to the paternity leave provisions, and RAAC work at the courts in Medway, which means it’s a case of all rise at the Maidstone Orida Hotel.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Residential conveyancing team expands with solicitor hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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