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The Law Society has responded to consultations on the new Public Law Outline (PLO) to replace the Protocol for Judicial Case Management in Public Law Children Act Cases from April 2008 and also...
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On 12 October the Lord Chancellor appointed Mr Robert Ian Martin to be President of the Social Security and Child Support Appeal Tribunal with effect from 1 November 2007. Mr Martin replaces His...
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The President of the Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, gave the opening address at the annual Family Law Conference in London on 11 October. In a bulletin board of current developments including big...
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In November the Law Society will publish Related Family and Criminal Proceedings - A Good Practice Guide. The guide has been drafted for the Family-Criminal Interface Committee and is intended to...
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A new Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Legal Services Commission (LSC) -backed council was launched on 1 October to provide a structured voice for family mediation in the UK. The Family Mediation Council...
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15 October 2007

Contact Centre Petition
Following on from the National Association of Child Contact Centres AGM last month, an online petition to No 10 Downing St has been started. The expiry date is about 21 November 2007. It is requesting...
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10 October 2007

Care Publication
In September the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) published a report on children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) for the year ending 31 March 2007. It...
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10 October 2007

MEPs and Rome III
MEPs in the Civil Liberties Committee have started to look at European Commission proposals to clarify the law relating to international divorces, of which across the EU there are estimated to be...
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According to The Times Law Report of 4 October it is perfectly reasonable for an English court to grant a decree absolute of divorce to the wife where the husband was waiting for an appeal to be heard...
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10 October 2007

Cohabitation growing
According to figures released by the Office for National Statistics on 4 October, in 1996 there were 16.5 million families in the UK which increased to 17.1 million in 2006. The proportion of married...
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