All Courts business articles – Page 132
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NewsLegal aid residence test ruled lawful
The lord chancellor appealed the High Court’s decision last year that the legislation he proposed to introduce was unlawful.
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NewsSpending review: green light for £700m courts upgrade
Chancellor reveals funding will be found from the programme to close 91 courts across England and Wales.
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NewsFamily ADR boosted by new guidance
Practice note from head of Family Division could encourage more lawyers to view arbitration as a viable option.
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Opinion
New pecking order in law
The Law Society’s response to the government’s proposals for court closures is an excellent, thorough and detailed piece of work, which reflects great credit on the Society, and those who so assiduously argued the case for each court. It remains to be seen how many courts will, in fact, be ...
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FeatureDefining dishonesty: Personal injury
Is ‘fundamental dishonesty’ the new battleground in industrial disease cases?
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FeatureDonatio mortis causa
King v Chiltern Dog Rescue and Redwings Horse Sanctuary [2015] EWCA Civ 581
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News
Call to make electronic filing mandatory in Rolls Building
CPRC advised that electronic filing should become mandatory if not enough parties take it up voluntarily
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News
Lead cases test for criminal legal aid contracts
Wave of litigation over award of contracts to begin with eight cases, High Court rules
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NewsCourt of Protection to be opened to public
A six-month pilot scheme will open the court to the public and the media from next year.
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NewsReport highlights 'serious shortcomings' in youth advocacy
Many advocates lack specialist training and knowledge when practising in the youth courts, report for regulators claims.
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NewsCourt sparring begins in legal aid contract challenges
High Court hearing into management of litigation over new crime duty contracts lasted nearly three hours.
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NewsAppeal decision protects solicitor offering ‘unbundled’ advice
Solicitors do not have a broader duty of care when instructed on a limited retainer, judges rule in negligence case.
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NewsEmployment lawyers urge caution over online court
Lord Justice Briggs to produce interim report on the structure of civil courts by the end of this year.
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NewsCourts charge has ‘not gone correctly’ – lord chief justice
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd hopes the government will soon look at financial penalties ‘in the round’.
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OpinionStructured mayhem in court
Criminal justice may be ritualised and in some respects archaic, but a strict regimen is critical to fair trials.
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FeatureClosed Material Procedures: disclosure
The question of what procedural fairness demands in the context of national security is troubling the courts.
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ProfileActing for an oligarch’s ‘secret daughter’
Paul Green acted for Anastasia Goncharova, who claims to be the daughter of deceased Kakha Bendukidze.
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NewsConveyancing firm wins appeal over valuation
Court of Appeal judgment highlights scope of duty of solicitors instructed on behalf of both borrower and lender.
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NewsElectronic filing trial extended to cover Rolls Building
The pilot scheme lasts for a year from 16 November and is an extension of the e-filing system already in place in the TCC.
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NewsClifford Chance Libor documents covered by legal privilege, court rules
A High Court judge holds that lawyers must be able to give ‘candid factual briefings’ secure in the knowledge communications will not be disclosed.