By John Hyde2021-02-24T10:49:00+00:00
The Ministry of Justice says it has reopened old web links to procedure rules and halted their automatic redirection to a new website in an olive branch to frustrated litigants.
Lord Wolfson QC, the government’s justice spokesman in the House of Lords, said that redirects from the old justice.gov.uk site will be disabled, with users no longer taken to the gov.uk while that is being worked on. The original pages are again accessible and operable.
The
Gazette reported last week that litigants and lawyers were having difficulties navigating the new site and getting easy access to the rules and paragraphs they were searching for. Links included for specific passages in electronic bundles for the old site were also directing people to generic pages.
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Hartlepool-born journalist Sian Harrison has been appointed the new co-author of McNae s Esential Law for Journalists (Image: Sian Harrison)
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Hilton Hotel to be transformed into new nightingale Crown court during pandemic
The iconic city centre building will become a Crown court from next week
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Manchester s Hilton Hotel will be used as another nightingale court , to help tackle a backlog of court cases.
By Jemma Slingo2021-02-03T09:28:00+00:00
Waiting times for grants of probate have fallen to roughly five weeks following a productive January, the probate service has said.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service told the Law Society that the number of grants being issued per week has now overtaken the number of applications being received. It added that it has slightly improved its timeliness, with those who apply online waiting four weeks from receipt of the will and only one week if there is no mistake on the application or missing documentation. Those who submit paper forms are said to receive grants within eight weeks but this is ‘reducing rapidly’.