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The Court of Appeal are still working their way through the backlog of appeals that were generated after the decision in Re B-S and the flurry of successful appeals that followed (combined with the...

Introduction Two deficiencies in the regime created by the Child Abduction Act 1984 (the 1984 Act) were highlighted in the cases of Kayani [2011] EWCA Crim 2871, [2012] 1 WLR 1927 and R...

Mr Justice Mostyn is nothing if not brave. In a decision handed down on 18 November 2014: Rochdale MBC v KW [2014] EWCOP 45, he took on the Supreme Court in Cheshire West and demanded that it...

There’s contempt of court, and then there’s contempt for those who don’t pay maintenance for their families. And it’s this category of miscreant who seem to be caught in a Dickensian time...

It was bound to happen eventually, given the huge shift in demand for conventional legal services (people just can’t afford them), but it now looks as if lawyers masquerading as McKenzies are...

The large scale inquiry into historic child abuse in England and Wales has gotten off to a rocky start, having lost both chairs successively due to a string of concerning disclosures which tainted...

A lot of my Muslim clients tell me about how they have separated from an Islamic point of view. It is the view amongst Muslims all over the world that when they marry, they should first marry in the...

Mike Stepan, Mediator, MiD Mediation and Counselling LtdThis article’s starting point is the surprising news that a process now being promoted by the Government primarily to save money,...

Grants of legal aid for civil proceedings (‘civil legal services’) have been radically curtailed by Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. Section 10 of that Act creates a...

Gillian Krajewski, MediatorThe parents’ conflict over their 2½-year-old son had escalated dramatically over a period of a few months. Wider family members had become involved and the dispute was...

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