Former district judge Stephen Gold, writing in this week’s NLJ, reports that a statutory instrument ‘rushed into force after 96 years… disapplies the prohibition for adoption “ceremony” stills where taken after the proceedings and authorised by the court and undertaken in accordance with the court’s instructions’. But that’s not all.
Gold also covers the news that junior barristers are to be encouraged to speak more in court as well as defective drafting at the Ministry of Justice, hefty fee hikes in spring and an important business tenancy case.