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Ian Peddie QC, Garden Court Chambers: In 2010 the Supreme Court removed the presumption against children giving evidence in family proceedings. There has subsequently been Guidance from the Family...

Dr Raymond Arthur, Reader in Law, Faculty of Business andLaw, Northumbria University: Recently the Children's Commissioner for England, Maggie Atkinson, has expressed her view that the law should ban...

Jonathan Smith, Solicitor and Mediator: Mediation is underused and the family courts are becoming choked with litigants because Joe Public lacks the relevant legal information (not...

Domicile in a post-Victoria eraTwo cases reported at the start of this year, Ray v Sekhri [2014] EWCA Civ 119 and Divall v Divall [2014] EWHC 95 (Fam), [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming) illustrate the scope...

Child trafficking is a growing problem. Recently published statistics from the National Crime Agency show that the number of children trafficked into and out of the UK has soared in the past year and...

On Tuesday, 1 April 2014, a date rich with irony, the European Court of Justice is hearing claims brought by several EU Governments against the EU asserting that the EU has, in terms, wrongly...

Introduction In my previous article, I summarised the key points of the decision, and gave some initial comments. I want to return today to consider some further points in the judgments...

London is regularly referred to as the ‘divorce capital of the world', principally because the law in England and Wales is felt to favour the economically weaker spouse. It is generally felt...

Introduction After a wait that - if one was being impertinent - might seem doubtfully compliant with the requirement of speed in Art 5(4) ECHR, the Supreme Court has now handed down its judgment in...

In Part 1 of this article, I revealed Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data showing a material increase in the number of litigants in person presenting at family courts since changes to public funding in...

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