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21 November 2016

A Day in the Life of ... Sir Mark Hedley (former Family Division judge)
What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?I used to be a judge of the Family Division but retired in 2013. I am now visiting Professor of Law at Liverpool Hope University and hold...
Sir Mark Hedley
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18 November 2016

What’s mine is (*not) yours - the treatment of non-matrimonial property: no longer a lawless science?
IntroductionIn recent years, there has been two arguably parallel lines of case law on the general approach courts should take to non-matrimonial property. The two groups of case law represent the two...
Bethany Hardwick
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8 November 2016

Setting aside High Court orders for return in asylum cases: Re H (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 988
In Re H (A Child) (International Abduction: Asylum and Welfare) [2016] EWCA Civ 988, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowed a mother’s appeal from High Court orders for her son to be returned to...
David Williams QC Jacqueline Renton
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4 November 2016

Band-aids for bullet holes: pro bono legal services post-LASPO
The below article was originally published in January 2016 Family Law and has been revised and made available free of charge for National Pro Bono Week which runs 7-11 November.The aim of...
Dr Bianca Jackson
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4 November 2016

Calais’ child refugees - leaked emails, law suits and local authority mission impossibles
As Britain accepts the first group of children from the fast-disappearing Calais 'Jungle', the lack of government organisation, care and accommodation for these young refugees is nothing short of a...
Natasha Phillips
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3 November 2016

Re X: withdrawal of care order application
Permission to appeal out of time against a care orderRe X (A Child) (No 3) [2016] EWHC 2755 (Fam), Sir James Munby P (2 November 2016) is an important case for at least three procedural reasons,...
David Burrows
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2 November 2016

A reminder that the courts have wide discretion when awarding costs: AB v CD [2016] EWHC 2482
This article looks at the outcome of the costs hearing in the long running case of AB v CD [2016] EWHC 2482. The general rule in relation to costs in family financial remedy proceedings is ‘no...
Kathryn Mason
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1 November 2016

PSL Essential Update – October 2016
As another month draws to a close, we review what has been happening over the past month. October 2016 has proved to be a busy month, both in the Family Law events calendar and in the family law arena...
Paula Tanner
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31 October 2016

Is a properly completed TR1 definitive in a cohabitation dispute?
‘Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.’ (Bob Dylan, Hurricane)While Bob was singing about deeper matters than who owned a share of another’s house at the...
Gareth Schofield
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31 October 2016

One man’s inference is another man’s imputation: logic theory and legal practice in TOLATA 1996 claims
‘From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagra without having seen or heard of one or the other.’ (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)In...
Andrew Commins
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