Deadlines are crucial, but how is the date and time determined? In this week’s NLJ, former district judge Stephen Gold explores a recent case in which solicitors made ‘an innocent day-counting mistake’. Gold notes that the case also sheds light on the need for ‘promptness’
He shares advice for ‘any practitioner arguing for or against the appointment of an intermediary for a vulnerable witness in family’, and urges them to study a particular Court of Appeal case. He remarks on ‘an essential case’ in the small claims track, involving an invention for canines, and also covers Garfield, an artificial intelligence (AI) debt-chasing lawyer now authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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