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Rebecca Probert, Senior Lecturer, University of Warwick. Many cohabitants mistakenly believe they have a 'common-law marriage' which affords them the same rights as married couples. This myth is given...

Lorraine Schaffer, Director of the Centre for Mediation and Conflict Resolution at the Institute of Family Therapy and Chair of the Advanced Certificate and MSc in Conflict Resolution and Mediation...

David Salter, Addleshaw Goddard, Leeds Manchester and London. The Fraud Act 2006 came into force on 15 January 2007 and creates a new offence of fraud which can be committed in three ways: fraud by...

Liz Frank, Solicitor, Lawyers for Young People, Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP. Advocacy services are a crucially important lifeline for young people in care and leaving care. But advocates can only take...

Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick. Why should a dictum articulated by a Victorian judge capture the legal imagination for 140 years? Lord Penzance's statement in Hyde v Hyde and Woodmansee (1866)...

Gabrielle Jan Posner, 2 Grays Inn Square Chambers. The Court of Appeal has not been short of special guardianship orders cases in recent months. Further down the line in the Family Proceedings Courts,...

Lynn Davis, Solicitor, Consultant to Davis Simmonds and Donaghey, Kent. In LM v Medway Council, RM and YM [2007] EWCA Civ 9 the county court's decision that the child must give evidence in person was...

Ruth Kirby, Barrister, Renaissance Chambers. Following the Civil Partnership Act 2004 there are now very few ways in which the law treats same sex partnerships differently from marriages. However,...

Elizabeth Cooke, University of Reading. The House of Lords' decision in Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] UKHL 24, [2006] 1 FLR 1186 (Miller/McFarlane) is to be welcomed for the guidance...

Rachel Taylor, Christ Church, Oxford. In the case of R (Axon) v Secretary of State for Health [2006] EWHC 37 (Admin) (Axon) a parent's challenge to the policy of granting confidentiality to children...

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