All Feature articles – Page 75
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FeatureCoronavirus Q&A: Changes to housing eviction notices
Coronavirus Act amends sections under the Housing Acts 1985, 1988 and 1996, as well as the Rent Act 1977.
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FeatureFixed penalty notice for breach of lockdown: notifying the SRA
Ordinarily the regulator is not overly interested in fixed penalty notices. But these are not ordinary times.
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FeatureShutting up shop
The impact of lockdown on commercial real estate and the sector’s legal advisers will be profound.
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FeaturePast in the present
Three decades separate the onset of Alexandra Marks’ and Charlotte Parkinson’s legal careers. What could they possibly have to say to each other? Quite a lot, we discover.
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FeatureA ‘setback’ for unexplained wealth orders
On 8 April, two prominent Kazakhstan citizens successfully persuaded the High Court to discharge three unexplained wealth orders (National Crime Agency v Baker and ors [2020] EWHC 822 (Admin)). The UWOs related to three London homes owned for the benefit of Nurali Aliyev and his Kazakh politician mother, Dariga Nazarbayeva. ...
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FeatureCoronavirus Q&A: Family law
Common questions answered around family and children’s law during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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FeatureThe challenge for SME law firms in the Covid-19 era
Parliament is disproportionately full of former lawyers. They should understand the pressures the SME legal sector faces.
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FeatureData page – May 2020
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureWhiplash portal: views from the claimant and defendant
Development of new regime for low value RTA claims has been a marathon rather than a sprint, but we are now close to a new system.
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FeatureSelf starters
After just three years the ‘continuing competence’ regime is already being reviewed. Was the SRA right to deregulate professional development?
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FeatureLockdown or pitstop?
A generational shift in working practices accelerated by the Covid-19 lockdown has far-reaching implications for legal tech. There will be no going back.
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FeaturePower grab
Is a UK daily death toll numbered in the hundreds distracting us from unjustified assaults on our rights and the responsibilities of government?
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FeatureDoes being good at your job put you at risk?
Flip side of competence is being at high risk of burnout.
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FeatureRowing back on vicarious liability
Two judgments from the Supreme Court have set restrictions on the scope of vicarious liability. In Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 the test was whether the tortfeasor was in fact the ‘employee’ of the employer.
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FeatureLocal democracy survives Covid-19
A near 50-year-old way of administering local democracy was in danger of coming to a rather abrupt halt.
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FeatureCovid-19: Entitlement of defendants awaiting trial to apply for bail
Practical impact of coronavirus on such things as remand times and resources make it inevitable that bail positions should be reviewed.
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FeatureProlonged disorders of consciousness, the courts and clinicians
New guidance includes recent changes in the law governing procedures for the continuation or withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration.