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7 March 2007

LSC Unified Contract
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) published the final version of its standard terms for the new unified legal aid contract on 26 February 2007. The unified contract will bring conditions for...
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5 March 2007

Adoption Dismissal
According to New Law Journal of 2 March 2007, an employment tribunal has recently ruled that a car hire firm had unfairly dismissed an employee on account of her intention to adopt a child and take...
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District judges and recorders authorised to hear contested care applications are to be given jurisdiction to hear related placement proceedings. This will be achieved by amendments to the Allocation...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) published its Value for Money report Legal Aid and Mediation for People involved in Family Breakdown on 2 March 2007. It states that too many family breakdown cases are...
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On 1 March the LSC published Making Legal Rights a Reality for Children and Families, its five-year strategy for family legal aid which sets out:- its priorities for funding family legal aid;- its...
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1 March 2007

Charman appeal
On 6 March 2007 the Court of Appeal is due to hear the husband's appeal in Charman v Charman [2006] EWHC 1879 (Fam), [2006] Fam Law 1019. Following a long marriage, in which both parties started with...
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26 February 2007

Professor David Southall
The Attorney General is to conduct a review of cases where Professor David Southall, a consultant paediatrician, was involved as a prosecution witness. The General Medical Council (GMC) is conducting...
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26 February 2007

Marriage Remedy
The Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2007 (SI 2007/438) comes into force on 1 March 2007 and amends s 1 of and Sch 1 to the Marriage Act 1949 and remedies their incompatibility with the European...
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26 February 2007

Mental Capacity Act Guidance
The Mental Capacity Act received Royal Assent on 7 April 2005. Some of the Act is due to come into effect in April 2007 and the rest commences in October 2007. The Department for Constitutional...
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23 February 2007

IFA register
Resolution and Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) Karen Ritchie are launching a specialist divorce register to link legal and financial specialist advisers for divorcing couples going through...
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