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28 October 2022 / Stephen Gold
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Civil way: 28 October 2022

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New port alert order; Watford snags; waiting for a seal; Abu Dhabi start up prevails.

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‘Is this yours Eth?’ MyHMCTS has improved the experience of users of its online financial remedy services, or so they say. Not only will their email notifications provide the 16-digit case reference number but will now include the parties’ names. Also, when a first appointment is notified to the respondent’s legal representative as a result of the applicant’s legal representative having identified them on issue, the former will need to contact their case access administrator and ask for the case to be assigned to them before they can access it.

The Bad News for your clients Civil statistics based on April–June 2022 performance show what you already knew: justice is taking longer. The mean time from issue to trial in small claims is 50.8 weeks and in fast and multi-tracks 75 weeks.

Alert: revise that order The Family Court does have jurisdiction to make a free-standing order for a port alert (which extends to all levels of the judiciary). Mostyn

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NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins
From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
NLJ this week: Promises broken on non-molestation orders?
Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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