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Farhana Shahzady of Beck Fitzgerald and Rosa Schofield of The International Family Law Group LLP discuss recent trends in the law relating to spousal maintenance. The article explores the key ...
The Family Law Awards return this autumn for what promises to be another exceptional evening of celebration, recognition and community. Taking place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London on ...
Family analysis: Siddique Patel solicitor at Shoosmiths discusses the decision of the Court of Appeal overturning that of Williams J when he ruled that an Islamic Nikah ceremony could be classed as a ...
Jordan Publishing is delighted to announce the shortlist of nominees for the Family Law Awards 2016. The 6th annual awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday, 23 November at the Bloomsbury Big Top, ...
This paper demonstrates that the assumption of accidental bruising in non-mobile infants being rare is not supported by research. It highlights weaknesses in the evidence-base and shows that between 0 ...
Relationships have been in the news in 2018. Not only did we see two Royal weddings, but at the opposite end of the romance spectrum, in June the UK Supreme Court ruled that it was discriminatory not ...
The issue of single parent families has attracted the attention of headline writers for more than a generation. But in the reporting of data relating to them, much of it centres on the two million ...
Mental health and wellbeing is becoming increasingly important not only within daily life but in family law cases. A family breakdown and/or disagreements between parents as to the arrangements for ...
'I’m a common-law wife' (No you’re not) 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the unexpected return from the dead of something terrifying. Hence at the end of Friday the 13th the seemingly dead ...
The use of expert evidence is tightly regulated by the Judges in the Family Court. A party will only be permitted to adduce such evidence where it is ‘necessary’ to assist the court to resolve the ...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has made available new training on the subject of HMCTS Kinly Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which sets out what CVP is, how to access a CVP room through the ...
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 which came into force on 2 October 2017. The Practice Direction ...