THIS ISSUE
Internal procedures, constructive dismissals & the slippery slope of indirect discrimination: Ian Smith offers some expert tuition
Coronavirus regulations: out with impenetrable legalese & in with pictures, graphs & diagrams, say Charles Auld & Kate Harrington
Veronica Cowan quizzes experts on the pressure faced by the property sector as the end of the stamp duty holiday looms
In his new column, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan shares his insights and predictions for litigators in and out of court
Divorce applications nearly doubled between April and July last year as couples struggled with the first lockdown, according to the Legal Services Board (LSB) COVID-19 research dashboard into the pandemic’s impact on legal services.
Tougher checks on professional competence throughout a lawyer’s career could be introduced, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has said.
Law firms, legal businesses and chambers have been urged to join the #10000BlackInterns initiative, which aims to broaden career opportunities for Black people in the UK.
Lawyers and rights activists around the world are suffering ongoing attacks from governments for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, Amnesty International and the Centre for Applied Human Rights have warned.
A deadline of summer 2021 has been set for publication of the final copy of the Family Division’s Transparency Review on media access and reporting in the Family Court, which was launched in May 2019.
About 11% of British adults have experienced wrongly distributed inheritance, either personally or through a member of their family, research has found
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Clarke Willmott—Megan Bradbury
Corporate team welcomes paralegal in Southampton
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Howard Kennedy—Paul Moran
London firm strengthens real estate team with partner appointment
Cripps—Radius Law
Commercial and technology practice boosted by team hire
NEWS
Pathfinder courts—renamed ‘Child focused courts’—are to be rolled out nationally, following a successful pilot where backlogs halved and cases were resolved up to seven and a half months faster
The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a £385,000 costs order against a father, in a case that centred on what is required to meet the threshold of ‘reprehensible or unreasonable’ behaviour
Centuries-old burial laws would be overhauled, under Law Commission proposals to address the burgeoning problem of shortage of cemetery space
The government has committed an extra £32m to women’s charities and services tackling addiction, trauma, abuse and homelessness
The Financial Ombudsman is poised for major reform to return it to a simple, impartial dispute resolution service
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