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Nicholas Allen QC, 29 Bedford RowThe decision in Tchenguiz-Imerman v Imerman [2010] 2 FLR 814, CA catapulted the term “Imerman documents” into the everyday vocabulary of the family practitioner. It...
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Laura Cooper writes about the crucial role that youth justice lawyers have to play in reducing the criminalisation of looked after children at the police station.Imagine this scenario: A teenager gets...
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Emma Woollcott and Isabella Piasecka, Mishcon de ReyaEmma Woollcott and Isabella Piasecka of Mishcon de Reya consider how family disputes, particularly those involving children, can give rise to...
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Francesca Wiley QC, 1 GC Family LawThis article focuses on the evolution of approach by the family courts and practitioners working with children and families, to cases where parental alienation and...
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The legal charity, the Personal Support Unit has brought together a panel of experts to discuss the rise in mental health issues in the Family Courts and how we can help. The event, on 31 October,...
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7 October 2019

Godparent v guardian
Many parents assume that if they have appointed a godparent for their child, that the godparent will be able to step in to take care of the children if they were to die, but this is not the case.A...
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Northern Ireland's strict abortion law breaches the UK's human rights commitments, the High Court in Belfast has ruled. Currently, a termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life...
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Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules allows British Citizens and settled persons to bring their ‘partner’ to join them in the UK.  A ‘partner’ is defined as the applicant’s spouse, civil...
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Scotland has become the first country in the UK to make it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children.The ban on all physical punishment was backed overwhelmingly by 84 votes to 29 by the...
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Jeremy Ford, a Solicitor-Advocate at Cambridge Family Law Practice, acted pro bono on behalf of the Litigation Friend for the child at the centre of the landmark case of TT v Registrar General of...
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