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Chris Barton

Emeritus Professor
Chris Barton is Emeritus Professor (Staffordshire University) of Family Law, an emeritus member of the Society of Legal Scholars and an Academic Door Tenant at Regent Chambers (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent). He is a Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association and assists with the provision of continuing professional development for family lawyers and family mediators.
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Emeritus Professor
Chris Barton is Emeritus Professor (Staffordshire University) of Family Law, an emeritus member of the Society of Legal Scholars and an Academic Door Tenant at Regent Chambers (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent). He is a Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association and assists with the provision of continuing professional development for family lawyers and family mediators.
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Professor Chris Barton, A Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association, Academic Door Tenant, Regent Chambers, Stoke-on-TrentUnder the heading, ‘Protect our Democracy’ the 2019 Conservative...
This article traces the history of the subject, analyses the current law, and proposes reform to make divorce and financial remedies here less accessible to some categories of applicants.Before the...
Professor Chris Barton, A Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association, Academic Door Tenant, Regent ChambersThis article considers the development of the law regarding ill-treatment...
Ruth Cabeza, Victoria Flowers, Eirwen Pierrot, Anita Rao, Barry O’Leary and Lillian Odze, LexisNexis Family Law 2018, paperback. £99.99Lawyers have an honourable and growing role in family creation....
In September 2014 the Coalition Government issued a Discussion Paper on the - awkward to describe - subject of weddings celebrated by 'non-religious belief organisations'. Three months later, that...
This article considers the present law on matrimonial property agreements and proceeds to consider the recommendations in Law Com No 343 (2014): 'Matrimonial Property, needs and agreements'....
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