header-logo header-logo

01 December 2023
Issue: 8051 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
printer mail-detail

NLJ this week: Say ‘cheese’, speak up & prepare to pay more

There’s good news for the family album, in this week’s Civil way, with the news that ‘those delightful post-adoption order photographs at court with child, family and judge’ may be allowed after all

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. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
back-to-top-scroll