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29 September 2006

Court Personnel Proposals
In November 2005 the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) published a consultation document Authorisations to sit in Family Proceedings Courts and Youth Courts (CP 27/05) seeking views on...
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14 September 2006

Police Disclosure Protocol
The national police protocol referred to at September [2006] Fam Law 806 has now been publicly launched by the Government. The objectives of the protocol are as follows: To provide timely advance...
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14 September 2006

Mental Capacity Consultation
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) received Royal Assent on 7 April 2005. The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA), the Department of Health and the Welsh Assembly Government are...
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The Government is facilitating two conferences in October 2006 in Manchester and London to raise awareness of the obligations that all public authorities have under the Human Rights Act 1998. The...
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12 September 2006

Gee Street Courthouse
In July 2006 the Department for Constitutional Affairs amalgamated Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Courts and the new court - conveniently called Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court - moved to...
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6 September 2006

Inheritance Tax Appeal
Julian Washington, Partner, Forsters LLP. According to The Times of 4 September 2006 two elderly sisters who live together are bringing a case in the European Court of Human Rights in order to obtain...
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4 September 2006

Fall in divorce rates
Divorce rates in England and Wales among men and women aged under 40 have fallen by 13 and 12 per cent respectively since 2004, according to first statistics on divorce in 2005 released in September...
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4 September 2006

ILEX Certificate Course
ILEX Tutorial College (ITC) has developed in association with Resolution a new course for unqualified personnel handling family law files. The course is delivered by distance learning and is...
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The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is seeking children's views on: judges speaking to children involved in their parents' separation cases or in care proceedings to ask their views,...
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A consultation paper on children's separate legal representation was published on 1 September 2006. Separate Representation of Children (CP 20/06) proposes that children be made individual parties in...
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