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12 February 2021
Issue: 7920 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Costs
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NLJ this week: Civil way tongue twisters

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‘Cross-class cram downs’ are changing―limited liability partnerships can now have them too, NLJ columnist Stephen Gold explains in this week’s Civil Way.

Moving from tongue twisters to the ‘terror’ of costs, Gold reassures that ‘no costs advocate needs to quake these days’ due to a recently published costs guide. Elsewhere, he covers a local authority loss in a case on flexible tenancies, and makes some criticisms regarding a revamp of the N244.

Read Gold here.

 

Issue: 7920 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Costs
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