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We are a nation of animal-lovers. In today’s society our pets are increasingly regarded as one of the family. Unsurprisingly, against this back-drop, more and more pet owners are turning to...

The status of the evidence of children and of vulnerable witnesses has twice been before the Court of Appeal recently. Re J (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 875, [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming) was a...

Caveat – of course 99% of advocates don’t think like this, and there is no such thing as a deckchair brief. Witness Local Authority Mother Father Grandmother ...

No-one expected it to be good news. Even so, the preliminary findings of the Bar Council’s survey on the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO)...

The draft 'financial remedies' consent order authorised for the English family courts has, perhaps unsurprisingly, not included provisions which were an issue recently before the German...

The doubters as to the efficacy of IFLA family arbitration in the financial remedy context need look no further than the case of S v S (Financial Remedies: Arbitral Award) [2014] EWHC 7...

'Private Members’ Bills are Public Bills introduced by MPs and Lords who are not government ministers. As with other Public Bills their purpose is to change the law as it applies to the general...

Following cuts to legal aid almost 20,000 more parents went to court without a lawyer in 2013/14, according to unpublished Government figures.The surge in unrepresented parents contesting child...

The Cobra Effect is not that phenomenon where you find yourself ordering more poppadoms than you can eat and being full by the time your main course arrives. It instead refers to an attempt by...

Most people know that for a marriage to be valid in the UK, a civil Registry marriage has to be performed. This is done according to the Marriage act 1949 and for same-sex couples in the UK, the...

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