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NLJ this week: A box unticked, a pilot unfinished (Civil way)

11 August 2023
Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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A confusing name has been chosen for the court office in Northampton, seasoned NLJ columnist & former District Judge Stephen Gold notes in this week’s Civil Way. Fortunately, Gold was not foxed—he knows his way around the civil justice system too well

This week, Gold recounts a warning tale in which failure to tick the right box took a pair of litigants all the way to the Court of Appeal. While the absence of a tick in the jurisdiction contest box was ‘not fatal’ in this case, the decision was ‘case-specific’ so a future mishap might fall the other way. Gold writes: ‘Warning, though: there was a possibility that a tick absence could be taken as an acceptance of jurisdiction.’

Gold also covers the scrapping of legal aid means testing for family representation for under-18-year-old applicants from 3 August, as well as access to the criminal records of notaries public, extensions to family law pilots, and much more. Solid Gold and always civil.

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