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Professor Judith Bray, University of BuckinghamCurrently unmarried couples have no right in law to claim ownership of each other’s property on relationship breakdown. This should be well known but...

Pensions are often one of the most significant assets in divorce and financial proceedings. Happily, the law provides that pensions may be divided between divorcing spouses by virtue of a pension...

I was once against counsel who wore jodhpurs in court. It was a disconcerting experience; her jacket was all business but below the waist she was a walking Jilly Cooper novel, an all winking thrusting...

It would probably have been sensible to write a piece about agreeing arrangements for the festive season in September, or maybe even August. Deciding then how children divide their time when they are...

What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?I used to be a judge of the Family Division but retired in 2013. I am now visiting Professor of Law at Liverpool Hope University and hold...

IntroductionIn recent years, there has been two arguably parallel lines of case law on the general approach courts should take to non-matrimonial property. The two groups of case law represent the two...

In Re H (A Child) (International Abduction: Asylum and Welfare) [2016] EWCA Civ 988, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowed a mother’s appeal from High Court orders for her son to be returned to...

The below article was originally published in January 2016 Family Law and has been revised and made available free of charge for National Pro Bono Week which runs 7-11 November.The aim of...

As Britain accepts the first group of children from the fast-disappearing Calais 'Jungle', the lack of government organisation, care and accommodation for these young refugees is nothing short of a...

Permission to appeal out of time against a care orderRe X (A Child) (No 3) [2016] EWHC 2755 (Fam), Sir James Munby P (2 November 2016) is an important case for at least three procedural reasons,...

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