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NLJ this week: Always civil

01 April 2022
Issue: 7973 / Categories: Legal News , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Former District Judge Stephen Gold dips into the tale of clinical negligence by four separate dentists working from the same practice, in this week’s Civil Way

However, it turns out not to have been a deadly quad of teeth extractors acting in concert but a tactical decision by the claimant to sue the practice not the individual. Gold mulls the possibilities, as well as covering a brace of other issues―an employment compensation hike, tribunal procedure, flexible tenancy, standard orders, employee protection and divorce law. He declares: ‘Adultery is dead, sort of.’

Issue: 7973 / Categories: Legal News , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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