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Alex Ralton, Barrister, Albion Chambers, Deputy District Judge. Consider this interesting episode. Selma and Seymour, who are unmarried, buy Springfield House (registered land) together in Selma's...
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David Salter, Addleshaw Goddard, Leeds Manchester and London. The gradual erosion of public funding over a number of years has left an increasing number of applicants for ancillary relief looking for...
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George Eddon, Local Authority Solicitor. Special guardianship orders have been available to the courts since 30 December 2005, when the Adoption and Children 2002 was fully implemented. Now to be...
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23 February 2007

Assessing Attachment
Dr George Hibbert. Attachment is widely referred to in the family courts but is poorly understood by many social workers, children's guardians and health visitors, and even by some child psychologists...
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Philip Cayford QC and Jonathon Tod both in practice at 29 Bedford Row, London. The Court of Appeals decision in Re P (Child: Financial Provision) [2003] EWCA Civ 837, [2003] 2 FLR 865 has led to a sea...
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Anne Barlow, Carole Burgoyne and Janet Smithson, University of Exeter. We have heard much about the common law marriage myth in the context of cohabitation law reform. But what about trying to dispel...
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23 February 2007

Jersey Trusts An Update
Gillian Robinson Partner, Appleby Hunter Bailhache, Jersey. This item provides a brief update to the article at [2006] Fam Law 1085 on Jersey Trusts and the extent to which they were under attack as a...
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Robin Powell, Barrister, Tanfield Chambers, Member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The judgment of Holman J in the case of An NHS Trust v MB (A Child...
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12 January 2007

Re G: A Missed Opportunity
Elizabeth Woodcraft, Barrister, Tooks Chambers. The House of Lords' decision in Re G (Children) [2006] UKHL 43, [2006] 2 FLR 629 was interesting and useful, as alluded to in the article by L...
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Deborah Cullen, Secretary to the Legal Group, British Association for Adoption & Fostering. The debate on extending openness in the family court will the author trusts continue, even after the...
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