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NLJ this week: Rent, road traffic and a watery estate

28 May 2021
Issue: 7934 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , CPR , Personal injury
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Possession laws and coronavirus regulations have together knitted a jumble sale of dates, deadlines, notice periods and requirements. 

In this week’s Civil Way, former District Judge Stephen Gold sorts through the rules. Noting that ‘small personal injury road traffic claims go barmy on 31 May 2021’, he covers CPR updates.

Gold also reports how water damage on an estate in central London was to cost the right to buy lessees £72,000 each due to a historic lease until the courts found a way forward. Gold shines a light on all this and more, on p18

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NEWS
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
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
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
County court cases are speeding up, with the median time from claim to hearing 62 weeks for fast, intermediate and multi-track claims—5.4 weeks faster than last year
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
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