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Introduction After a wait that - if one was being impertinent - might seem doubtfully compliant with the requirement of speed in Art 5(4) ECHR, the Supreme Court has now handed down its judgment in...

In Part 1 of this article, I revealed Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data showing a material increase in the number of litigants in person presenting at family courts since changes to public funding in...

The Children and Families Act 2014 removes from the Children Act 1989 the old prohibition on an Interim Care Order or Interim Supervision Order being made for longer than 28 days (or a combination of...

Re D (Fact-Finding Hearing: Medical Treatment) [2014] EWHC 121 (Fam) (Mostyn J) Practice and procedure - Fact finding Summary This decision in a fact-finding hearing relating...

On 10 March, Mostyn J handed down his decision in the case of Rubin v Rubin [2014] EWHC 611 (Fam), [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming). We were solicitors for the Applicant Wife in the proceedings. ...

One of the good recommendations from the recent English Law Commission report into marital agreements was that foreign marital agreements should be given equal weight and binding status under...

Hands up who is looking forward to getting their heads around all of the upcoming changes to family law? As was clear from the President's 10th View, there are a lot of changes coming, and we are...

Between April and September 2013, approaching half of all parties involved in child-related private law court proceedings were unrepresented. This is the shocking result of our latest Freedom of...

Anna Yarde, Barrister, Harcourt Chambers: The landscape of private law children disputes is changing rapidly. Changes in legal aid have resulted in a significant increase in the number of...

Emma Hitchings (University of Bristol), Joanna Miles (University of Cambridge), Hilary Woodward (University of Cardiff) This article explores key findings from a recent two-phase research study: (1)...

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