LEGAL LITE BITES
Compulsory eye strain for DJs 80% of practitioners do it. It’s on the cards that you will all be doing it by 31 January 2023, by when it will be mandatory to use the digital portal for issue of all contested financial remedy applications. And just introduced is the facility for an instructed barrister who has got themselves registered to MyHMCTS to have access to the portal. Their solicitor should add them in. If the barrister is directly instructed, they will need to notify their local financial remedy court of the instruction which will secure access for them.
‘You’re ours—for peanuts’ Exclusivity terms in workers’ contracts restrict their ability to take on additional work with other employers. These terms are already unenforceable in zero-hours contracts. Unenforceability is extended as from 5 December 2022 to contracts which provide a net weekly wage which is no more than the lower earnings limit (currently £123) by SI 2022/1145. Dismissal for breach
