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24 January 2017

Sharing v needs: X v X (Application for a Financial Remedies Order) [2016] EWHC 1995 (Fam)
Roopa Ahluwalia, Senior Associate, Mediator and Collaborative Lawyer, Birketts LLPX v X (Application for a Financial Remedies Order) [2016] EWHC 1995 (Fam), decided in mid-2016, has a particularly...
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20 January 2017

PSL Essential Update – View from the President’s Chambers and Review of Practice Direction 12J FPR 2010
In a  nutshell:The President of the Family Division has produced his 16th View from the President’s Chambers entitled ‘Children and vulnerable witnesses – where are we?’,  released in...
Amy Sanders
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20 January 2017

Report to the President of the Family Division and a Draft Revised PD12J
Report to the President of the Family Division1. In January 2016, Women’s Aid published, as part of its Child First Campaign, a report entitled ‘Nineteen Child Homicides: What must change so children...
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19 January 2017

Further Practice Guidance from the President on Non-Molestation Orders
Following discussions with the Association of District Judges, the editors of the Red Book and others, the President of the Family Division has revised his Guidance, which was originally issued in...
Jason Hadden MBE
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17 January 2017

Allowing councils to opt out of legal duties to ‘experiment’ with service delivery will place children’s lives at risk
In just a few months, the Family Court has seen its budget shrink from £2.4bn to £1.6bn. These cuts, as well as ongoing delays in improving the system, are wreaking havoc on society’s most vulnerable...
Natasha Phillips
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11 January 2017

Non-matrimonial property and sharing: Scatliffe v Scatliffe [2016] UKPC 36
The Board dismissed a husband’s appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) but used the ‘ill-starred appeal’ to give guidance to the local courts...
Kathryn Mason
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11 January 2017

Are we getting closer to no fault divorce?
Hats off to Resolution and all those who attended Parliament on 30 November 2016 to call on the government for no fault divorce. On the day, 150 family lawyers and other professionals came to...
Siddique Patel
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9 January 2017

A day in the life of ... Nigel Shepherd (Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and National Chair, Resolution)
Nigel Shepherd, Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and National Chair, ResolutionWhat is your position and what you do on a day-to-day basis?Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and also...
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5 January 2017

Pakistan Accedes the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
On 22 December 2016, Pakistan’s cabinet acceded to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (‘1980 Hague Convention’). This means that on 1 March 2017 Pakistan...
Marianna Michaelides
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3 January 2017

Family proceedings: common law and vulnerable witnesses
Evidence of vulnerable witnesses in family proceedings: progress so far?On 30 December 2016 Ministry of Justice published a statement by Sir James Munby President of the Family Division in which...
David Burrows
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