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Two Family Division judges have recently berated two couples for their disproportionate expenditure on funding their litigation. Both were financial remedy proceedings; though the issues involved in...

Elissa da Costa-Waldman Barrister Bridget Garrood Solicitor: Ten years ago the authors wrote a piece to assist family practitioners with the procedural aspects of cohabitation claims which are...

Lisa Parkinson Mediator and Trainer: In February 1978 three representatives of the embryo Bristol Courts Family Conciliation Service (now Bristol Family Mediation) were invited to a meeting with Sir...

District Judge Martin Dancey: To some extent or other, all district judges are used to conciliating in private law children cases, particularly at the first hearing dispute resolution...

District Judge Harold Godwin President, Association of Her Majesty's District Judges, who sits at Haverfordwest and Aberystwyth County Courts: The modernisation of the family justice...

Well, I must admit the Supreme Court LIVE coverage of Petrodel v Prest has undoubtedly left me wanting more live action direct from the courts. It really does offer the opportunity to achieve a...

In all the excitement over Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 last year, and the Children and Families Bill this year, many family lawyers have overlooked the fact - trailed...

Does this ring a bell? You sit opposite a client whose face gradually lengthens, whose mouth drops and whose eyes widen in dismay and disbelief as you describe how long it takes to bring matrimonial...

One limitation of being a lawyer is that you can become so engrossed looking at the minutiae of legislation that you forget the policy and purpose of it all. In the past few months, I have...

The United Kingdom and over 80 countries have both signed and ratified an international treaty called the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, concluded on 25 October 1980...

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