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Attached to the new FPR 2010 is a draft divorce petition, as it was to the 1991 Rules. However it will cause confusion and extra work for lawyers and courts as it does not include the separate Article...
Well, after the great excitement of the Royal Wedding comes the pondering... will they, won't they? Did they? Should they? Prenups, of course. Perhaps no-one has been brave enough to explore the...
Published today is Madeleine (Bantam Press 2011) by Kate McCann. It tells the hugely sad disappearance of Madeleine McCann four years ago and the continued search for her. Today is her eighth...
Updated: 11:52, 13 May 2011
One of the recommendations of the (interim) Family Justice Review is that parents be given a leaflet when they register the birth of their child providing an introduction...
Although it's been 3 weeks since my last blog, with all the Bank Holidays this will actually be my first 5 day week. The Firm have been very gentle with me to date - allowing time to read into...
For a number of years mediation has been recognised as being a form of alternative dispute resolution. In appropriate cases it has been an option considered by parties as a way of trying to compromise...
Mr Justice Mostyn received thoroughly unfair newspaper criticism last Sunday 24 April 2011, and in a way which did no good for perceptions about family justice. The Mail on Sunday led on its front...
Margaret Adcock
Child Care Consultant
Courts are often asked to give a parent of a child in care proceedings another chance to change. What effect would this have on the child? This article...
Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert
Gamble and Ghevaert LLP
The international surrogacy case of Re L (Commercial Surrogacy) [2010] EWHC 3146 (Fam), [2011] 1 FLR (forthcoming) attracted front...
Alexander Chandler
Barrister, 1 Garden Court, Temple, London
The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (‘FPR') takes the ancillary relief practitioner through three distinct stages: apprehension, wishful...