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Friday, 6 August, 2021
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Digitalisation Update on Financial Remedy Court in Manchester
Please see the note below from HHJ Haigh in relation to the above.
 
Training with the staff and judiciary now complete, those financial remedy cases issue digitally will be conducted on the platform in the future.
 
I am told that approximately 20% of cases issued nationally are issued digitally.
 
I have been asked to encourage solicitors to use the platform understanding that it cannot be used in all cases.
 
Nevertheless it is possible use might be mandated for solicitors by the start of 2022. That is the mood music from the national lead judges.
 
It may therefore be good forward planning to become familiar with the platform now.
 
As with all significant change there are bound to be problems and the judiciary will do everything it can to solve them when they arise.
 
Thank you.
 
HHJ Mark Haigh
Circuit Judge Manchester Family Court
Lead Judge Greater Manchester Financial Remedies Court
HHJ.Mark.Haigh@ejudiciary.net
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With Manchester Pride taking place on the August Bank Holiday weekend members of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Will Brownlee of MLP Law, Matthew Flanagan of Squire Patton Boggs and Shane Smith of Slater & Gordon, discuss the history of Pride and the upcoming events in Manchester.

Read the full article here. 
 
Read all the news from the Society, our partners and our members HERE

Don't forget to submit your articles to Julia Baskerville by 19 August for inclusion in the September edition.

Places are still available at our very first post lockdown event is taking place at Mount Street Dining Room & Bar, at the newly refurbished Midland Hotel.

The menu and booking form are now available here.

The evening will include:-
A welcome drink
1/2 bottle of wine or soft drinks per person
Three course meal
Business card draw

Tickets will cost £40.00 + VAT (£48.00)

If you would like to book a place please complete and return the booking form to enquiries@manchesterlawsociety.org.uk 
It’s been a busy year already for us at Weekly10 with us welcoming a record number of customers. From start-ups featured on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den through to brands recognised the world ove, we’ve been busy onboarding. 
 
Our customers may differ in size, but what they all have in common is the desire to have the best and most engaged people. Because working alongside happy, engaged people makes better business sense. 

They’ve recognised that doing regular weekly check-ins boosts engagement by putting their people first. And engaged employees outperform others by more than 20%. 

With so many new customers coming on board, we thought it was time to give ourselves a new, more mature and grown-up look.

So, what’s changing? 

Two things. Our brand’s the most visible change. Up until now, we’ve been very home-grown. Our CEO, Andy Roberts, created Weekly10 in 2017 out of frustration:

”I was fed up with the way performance reviews were a box-ticking exercise, and how tough it was to check-in with my team around the world.” 

So, he did what any developer does best: he wrote his own software to fix the issue. He built Weekly10 for himself – an employee – just like the thousands of people who use Weekly10 every Friday to check-in. 

And being honest, our branding was designed in the same way: at his kitchen table with his wife. As we grow up and get more feedback from customers, we want our brand to better reflect the value we offer. That’s why we’ve had a bit of a make-over.
 
But more importantly, we’re changing how we develop Weekly10 behind the scenes. From improvements to our psychology-based powerful questions bank to implementing new tech to guarantee scalability for our existing and future customers. This also sets us up to roll out a series of exciting new features over the next 6-12 months.

If you’re interested in seeing any of these new changes, or fancy a demo sometime, please head to www.weekly10.com. 
Did you miss the live stream? Want to see the reactions of the winners? Hear why the winners were chosen and the exciting work taking place in the Manchester Legal community?

You can watch the recording of the Manchester Legal Awards right here!
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