Renters Reform Bill
i News and Real Property report that Housing Secretary Michael Gove is said to be “hell-bent” on passing the Renters Reform Bill.
It cites that Richard Miller, our Head of Justice, told a meeting of the Private Rented Sector All-Party Parliamentary Group that courts in England and Wales still faced a backlog due to coronavirus and were not ready to deal with the Section 21 ban.
India opens up legal services sector
Following the historic decision by the Bar Council of India to allow foreign lawyers and law firms to be established in India in March, Law Society of England and Wales President Lubna Shuja told Bar & Bench that the decision would not result in work being taken away from Indian lawyers.
Net zero U-turn
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently got rid of key parts of the government’s existing climate change policies, to the exasperation of environment lawyers.
Caroline May, Chair of our Climate Change Working Group, told the Gazette: “It is likely that there may be legal challenges to the government’s recent U-turn on the UK’s net zero commitments.”
Also worth a read:
- Gray’s Inn ‘bomb’ plotters given long prison sentences – Gazette
- Academic says law firms adopt diversity initiatives because they are “fashionable” – Legal Futures
- Global banking reform implantation will be delayed – Financial Times (£)
- Freshers’ week disrupted by staff strikes – BBC News