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What a good idea it seems - get everyone to attend mediation and they will talk it all through, come to an agreement and there will be no need to fund so many expensive court hearings as it will all...

Simon Blain and Anna Worwood Manches LLP The Children Act 1989 (‘Children Act') does not contain a definition of the term ‘parent'. Therein lies much of the Act's flexibility; as concepts of...

Rebecca Probert Professor of Law, University of Warwick It is well known that the majority of modern cohabitants believe that there is such a thing as ‘common-law marriage' that gives them the same...

Penny Booth Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool University Centre for the Study of the Child, the Family and the Law There is a very old joke that ends something like this - never make fun of the...

James Gatenby Chavasse Court Chambers, Liverpool What does the family lawyer, or for that matter any lawyer, do when a client who is anxious about a vulnerable family member comes through the door....

His Honour Judge Clifford Bellamy Designated Family Judge for Warwickshire and Coventry As a solicitor, I quite enjoyed my occasional contact with the media - Joshua Rozenberg on the telephone; an...

Duncan Adam District Judge member of Family Procedure Rule Committee These are momentous times for all those involved in the family justice system in England and Wales. On 6 April 2011 the Family...

John Haskey Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford Over the years I have browsed the volume...

In October 2009 a mother took her two month old daughter to Reunion Island, the mother's country of origin, to live there permanently. The father, who had separated from the mother shortly after the...

Part 1.1 of the new Family Procedure Rules 2010 ("FPR") repeats the overriding objective in ancillary relief proceedings contained at rule 2.51D of the old Family Proceedings Rules. More than this, it...

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