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The introduction of a ‘no fault’ divorce system will mean that couples will be able to petition for divorce jointly without either person being held at fault.The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation...
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On 7 July 2020, the Court of Appeal handed down its Judgment in Holt v Holley & Steer [2020] EWCA Civ 851 providing new guidance on the assessment of the date of damage for the purposes of primary...
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Dr Jessie Blackbourn, Durham Law School, Durham UniversityKeywords: radicalisation, closed material procedures, special advocates, disclosureClosed material procedures were originally introduced in...
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More than 300 people who have signed an open letter to Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, urging her to grant asylum to an 11-year-old girl known as Jasmine who they state is at high risk of...
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Sarah Higgins, CRSB LawPension sharing in a needs case (W v H (divorce financial remedies) [2020] EWFC B10). The court gives consideration to the Pension Advisory Group report. The judge in this case...
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Professor Kim Holt, Professor of Family Law Northumbria University/Barrister at Trinity ChambersProfessor Nancy Kelly, Professor of Judgment and Decision Making in Social Work, Northumbria...
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Chris Walklett, FCAFamily lawyers across the country are grappling with the impacts of the Covid-19 on the process of executing and managing family cases. Hand in hand with the health impacts of...
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5 July 2020

Private FDRs
Simon Bruce, Farrer & CoSettling cases is rewarding for a family lawyer.Sometimes we need help in doing so, in particular the help of a lawyer/mediator adept at finding an imaginative solution in...
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Villiers v Villiers [2020] UKSC 30 is a highly unusual but important family law case about the respective powers of the Scottish and English courts.The factsMr and Mrs Villiers married in 1994. They...
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Tourism over the summer months has become the impossible dream. But "tourism" in the sense of where to gain the best outcome for spousal maintenance is here to stay. That is the net effect of the...
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