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Further to the publication in the May edition of Family Law of the paper on Enhancing the Participation of Children and Young People in Family Proceedings, the Family Justice Council is going to...
The Legal Services Commission is inviting tenders tenders from organisations wishing to deliver publicly funded civil legal advice services in specific civil law categories and geographical...
According to a report in the Telegraph last week, a divorcee is suing the Reading-based solicitors, Thompson Leatherdale, and her former barrister, Nicholas Francis QC, for alleged professional...
Children suffer if their parents split up just as much now as they did when it was less socially acceptable, a major study shows.Research conducted over several decades shows that children of divorced...
A Christian registrar from Islington who was bullied and threatened with dismissal because of her religious beliefs on same sex unions has succeeded in her claims of unlawful discrimination by the...
Paediatrician David Southall, and two other doctors, have been cleared of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC).Dr Southall and the two other doctors, Dr Andrew Spencer...
These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 (the 1991 Rules").These Rules shall come into force as follows:
(a) rules 1, 2, 3 and 9 to 17 shall come into force on 17 August 2009;
(b) rules...
By Julia HortonSeparating couples are being forced to continue living together due to housing and mortgage problems caused by the credit crunch, divorce lawyers said yesterday. Alan Susskind,...
Following the appointment of Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers as Senior Law Lord, Sir Igor Judge, President of the Queen's Bench Division, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales...
District Judge Nicholas Crichton, the presiding judge at Wells Street family proceedings court in central London, has spoken to Newswatch about his outrage over new fees for child care orders.Despite...