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There has been considerable reaction to the Prime Ministers comments about "runaway fathers" made to coincide with Fathers Day this year. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron called...
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The issues on elderly care have come round again. To make breakfast television and pages in the newspaper it must be attracting attention. Seems to me that the problem is what we now expect when we...
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The EU Maintenance Regulation came into force on Saturday, 18 of June 2011. Only five days earlier, Monday, 13 June, 2011, the domestic regulations for its impact on domestic law was laid before...
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It may be an increasingly old-fashioned view in the modern age of focus on mediation, collaboration and other forms of ADR but for me, appearing at Court is what being a lawyer is all about. That...
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Just when you thought you'd come to terms with the FPR 2010 (or perhaps got round to reading the really essential bits), the Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 arrive. They are due in force on 18...
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There has been comment before on this website about the sexualisation of children (see here). I am glad to see that after the report about the fourteen year old actress who is to play Juliet in a new...
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Speaking a couple of weeks ago Sir Paul Coleridge described our divorce and matrimonial finance laws as "a dead parrot". Law reform since 1970 has been, he said "by inertia, stealth, common sense and...
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The newspaper reports on the financial problems of Southern Cross care homes business indicate a malaise turning quickly to a panic. The care of the older members of society and the impact on families...
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Mark Harrop Solicitor, Collyer Bristow With all the talk about the changes introduced by the new Family Procedure Rules 2010 it is easy to forget that there are elements of earlier rule changes...
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Her Honour Nasreen Pearce Retired Circuit Judge The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 inserted Part 4A into the Family Law Act 1996 (‘FLA 1996') by adding sections 63A - 63S (now known...
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