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One limitation of being a lawyer is that you can become so engrossed looking at the minutiae of legislation that you forget the policy and purpose of it all. In the past few months, I have...

The United Kingdom and over 80 countries have both signed and ratified an international treaty called the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, concluded on 25 October 1980...

Generally, once a judge has made a decision, the court draws up and seals the order. Subject to any appeal and enforcement that is an end of the matter. It is not quite as simple as that says the...

Sir James Munby President of the Family Division: This article is based on the keynote address by Lord Justice Munby (as he then was) to Jordan's 25th Family Law Conference held at the London Hilton...

Rebecca Probert Professor of Law, University of Warwick: Before the 2010 election, the Conservative party pledged to recognise marriage in the tax system if should be successful, a pledge that has...

Anarchy is too strong a word for it; but so far as anarchy means without rule (‘archy' comes from classical Greek arkhia meaning rule) it begins to apply. In S v M (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2012]...

Lisa Parkinson Mediator and Trainer: There is widespread concern that legislation to promote shared parenting after separation would result in more separated parents fighting over their...

David Cameron has announced a referendum on the so-called "in or out" of the EU. But first, he said, there will be an attempt to repatriate some powers from the EU. Whilst some of us remain...

William Healing Partner, Kingsley Napley LLP: In this article, William Healing of Kingsley Napley LLP suggests the solution the Supreme Court might adopt in the eagerly anticipated 5/6 March Supreme...

Anne Barlow, Rosemary Hunter, Janet Smithson, Jan Ewing, Kate Getliffe and Paulette Morris Universities of Exeter and Kent: This article sets out the preliminary findings from the completed national...

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