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In our last blog we asked if the new Single Family Court will cope with the surge in the number of parents representing themselves at court. Since then the judiciary – in written evidence...

Third party interventions have been relatively rare in the Chitty, 1834 'The Practice of Law', at 497-498). An early explanation of the practice can be found in Dalrymple v Dalrymple...

The charity Action for Children has been campaigning for the introduction of a ‘Cinderella law’– that is making it illegal and punishable through the criminal law for parents to emotionally abuse...

In a recent speech the senior family judge Sir James Munby, informed an audience of colleagues that cohabitation reform was ‘desperately needed’. He lamented the courts’ inability to redistribute...

'We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.' ― C.S. Lewis Transparency in family court proceedings is now an uncorked...

I know that we family lawyers care deeply about our clients. So why didn't we fight hard to protect them? Our criminal colleagues seem to be made of sterner stuff with strikes and...

Where does the present debate on EU family law legislation lie with the sentiments expressed around Europe last Sunday through the ballot box of the EU elections? Is it in any way reflective of a...

The judgment of Mr Justice Holman in Chai v Peng (No 2) [2014] EWHC 1519 (Fam), [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming) permitting the wife to issue a replacement second petition upon the dismissal of her...

One of the key changes in the family justice system on 22 April 2014 in England and Wales is the mandatory requirement to attend a mediation information and assessment meeting...

The Court of Appeal have given two judgments in 2014 which indicate something of a sea-change in the way the higher Courts view split hearings or finding of fact hearings. Neither case was...

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