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Court of Protection Practice 2026
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Jackson's Matrimonial Finance Tenth Edition
Jackson's Matrimonial Finance is an authoritative specialist text...
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Marie Newton is a solicitor at Irwin Mitchell.
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Professor Judith Harwin joined Lancaster University in April 2016 as a part time Professor in Socio-legal studies and co-director of the newly established Centre for Child and Family Justice and she is Chair of the Funding College. she previously held a Chair in Social Work at Brunel University London and before that she was Professor of Social Welfare Studies at Sussex University.
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Lies beget lies – a surrogacy arrangement mutates into an adoption order
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Evaluating innovative family law practice: research findings on the ‘one-lawyer-two-clients’ format
Dr Rachael Blakey, University of WarwickThis article summarises findings from the first study on the "one-lawyer-two-clients format" in England and Wales, whereby a single lawyer supports both parties...
Specialist rape teams to be in every police force by 2027 as domestic abuse protection orders expanded
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