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22 October 2013

The Family Advocate’s Gateway to best practice for vulnerable witnesses
Professor Penny Cooper, Kingston Law School, Chair of the Management Committee of The Advocate's Gateway: This article outlines the latest guidance available on The Advocates' Gateway...
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22 October 2013

Working in Partnership update: how can mediators help the courts?
Neil Robinson, Mediator and Consultant, Family Mediation Centre Staffordshire; Visiting Professor Staffordshire University:     Imagine a meeting called jointly by the local judiciary and...
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18 October 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Funding Family Proceedings – The Solicitor’s Charge and Sears Tooth
The purpose of this note is to ask whether, in the light of the solicitors' statutory charge (Solicitors Act 1974, s 73(1)), there is ever any need for clients to sign a ‘Sears Tooth' agreement; or,...
David Burrows
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18 October 2013

David Hodson on International Family Law: The Court of Appeal upholds English discretionary forum against Owusu
  The Court of Appeal has today, Friday 18 October, handed down a landmark judgment for the continued existence of discretionary forum powers for the English divorce court. It has said...
David Hodson OBE MCIArb
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18 October 2013

Samantha Bangham’s Week in Cases 18 October 2013
This week has been another varied and exciting week for me. Conference season rolls on, this week with the Evidence in Child Abuse Conference in Kensington, chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice...
Samantha Bangham
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15 October 2013

‘Nothing else will do' - why the ‘last resort' won't necessarily be the last word ...
Following the decision of the Supreme Court in Re B (Care Proceedings: Appeal) [2013] UKSC 33, [2013] 2 FLR (forthcoming) particularly the judgment of Baroness Hale in relation to proportionality and...
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11 October 2013

Samantha Bangham’s Week in Cases 11 October 2013
What an exciting week it has been! The annual Family Law Conference followed by the third Family Law Awards ceremony took place at The London Hilton on Park Lane. Both were not-to-be missed events...
Samantha Bangham
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11 October 2013

Stuart Clark on International Family Law: Owusu in the Court of Appeal (An Update)
We reported last month that the question of how the ECJ decision in Owusu relates to family law, especially divorce, was due to be heard by the Court of Appeal. It has previously only been considered...
Stuart Clark
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8 October 2013

The Gatekeeping and Allocation – Care Proceedings Pilot: Evaluation by Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor Hugh McLaughlin, Kathryn Newton, Ann Potter                    Manchester Metropolitan ...
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4 October 2013

Samantha Bangham’s Week in Cases 4th October 2013
And we are back! Hopefully after wonderful summer breaks, refreshed and ready for the Michaelmas term. This year it definitely felt like the courts had not been on vacation. We had a steady stream of...
Samantha Bangham
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