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The Court of Protection is gearing itself to deal with the practical consequences of the judgment in P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and other; P & Q v Surrey County Council [2014] UKSC...

Five months on from my last opinion piece there have been massive changes to the family courts, law and legal aid relating to public law proceedings. Many of those changes were...

Sixty years ago, Roger Bannister ran the first sub four minute mile, doing something that only a few years before, experts had doubted was physiologically possible for a human. Since that time,...

The concept of the McKenzie Friend was established over four decades ago, but as a group they have only really come to prominence in the last few years as legal aid and budget cuts within...

When the Children and Families Act 2014 was given the Royal Assent on 13 April 2014, Family Justice and Civil Liberties Minister Simon Hughes, said: 'We are making sure the...

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow did it. Now the President of the Family Division wants to do the same with divorce and ancillary relief proceedings. In his address delivered on 29 April...

In this new blog, I want to offer some helpful hints and tips to beleaguered family law practitioners. My first attempt will be a family law re-interpretation of the famous self-help guide...

1. Arbitration has a long history, or so it would seem from my researches on the internet. In the Old Testament in the First Book of Kings chapter 3 is a description of an arbitration. It was a family...

Brussels II (2201/2003) is reviewed periodically by the EU as to its operation and any possible reforms. It has already been significantly reformed once with beneficial changes...

Dr Jonathan Dickens, Centre for Research on Children and Families, University of East Anglia The challenges of reconciling speed and thoroughness in child care cases are well known to all...

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