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In Avis v Turner and another [2007] EWCA Civ 748, the Court of Appeal decided that the equity jurisdiction enabled a trustee in bankruptcy to enforce a trust for sale of a matrimonial home held...
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28 August 2007

Global Mediation Website
A new website, Mediation World, is a global mediation resource for governments, courts, businesses, lawyers, mediators, and NGOs. Sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign and Commonwealth...
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21 August 2007

LSC Unified Contract
The LSC published its unified contract remuneration specifications for family and family mediation work on 13 August. The specifications will apply to all solicitors and not for profit providers and...
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21 August 2007

North v North award
On 31 July the Court of Appeal awarded Mrs North £3000 a year in periodical payments, anticipating that the parties would agree a conventional capitalization, which would result in the dismissal of...
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The Law Society has produced new guidance for the courts appointing solicitors in specified proceedings, prepared with the approval of the President of the Family Division and HMCS and also having...
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The Legal Services Commission Annual Report for 2006/07 was published on 8 August 2007. Family legal aid saw a 2% reduction in the number of applications in 2006/07 but, as the LSC states in the...
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The UK Government submitted its consolidated third and fourth report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 15 July 2007. The Department for Children, Schools and Families coordinated the...
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At its June 2007 meeting the Family Procedure Rules Committee gave its first consideration to draft rules relating to mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. The Committee also...
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14 August 2007

Tony Wells
Tony Wells, who made an outstanding contribution to the reform of family law procedure and practice and to interdisciplinary co-operation in family proceedings, died on 25 July 2007. He founded the...
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The House of Lords decided on 25 June 2007 that a spouse who used a private company to transfer some of his earned income to the other spouse was not liable to pay tax on that income, provided the...
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