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4 November 2021

The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 – will it protect victims of domestic abuse, and simplify the process for litigants in person?
Gemma Sweetman, Solicitor and Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of South WalesSara Diamond Moroy, Alumni (LL.M Legal Practice), School of Law, University of South WalesIn less than 6 months’...
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4 November 2021

What’s in a name? Legal considerations when changing a transgender child’s forename
Dr Bianca Jackson, Family Law Barrister, Coram ChambersChanging their name is often a significant step in a transgender person’s social transition. However, for trans children and young people, the...
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4 November 2021

‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend’: A review of the law on family loans – was Shakespeare right?
Anna Roiser and Eri Horrocks, Hunters LawThis article considers how the courts approach (purported) loans from family members in financial remedy proceedings, and the variety of situations in which...
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4 November 2021

Cohabitation Policy: where are we now?
Graeme Fraser, Partner and Head of Family, OGR Stock Denton LLPThis article summarises Resolution’s responses to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Rights of Cohabiting Partners and their proposal to...
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29 October 2021

The online divorce and financial remedy service: How far have we come? And how far can we go?
From 13 September 2021 it will be mandatory for any divorce petition being issued by a solicitor in England and Wales to be issued via the HMCTS online portal. Paper applications will no longer be...
Stuart Clark Annie Boxer
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29 October 2021

Language Matters: time to reframe our national vocabulary for family breakdown
Language matters. In his famous 1946 essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell pointed out that there is a relationship of cause and effect between what we say or write and what we...
Helen Adam
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21 October 2021

Mandatory mediation debate to resurface amidst government dispute resolution consultation
In March the government launched what was then widely publicised as a ‘temporary’ voucher scheme designed to improve the take-up of family mediation for separating families with children. An...
Jane Robey
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8 October 2021

The Importance of Obtaining a Recognised Jewish Get when Jewish Couples Divorce and what more is being done to protect 'chained' wives
Partner Lucy Greenwood & trainee Solicitor Feriha Tayfur update their review of Jewish divorces ('Get') and   potential solutions to family law practitioners and clients who need to...
Lucy Greenwood Feriha Tayfur
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4 October 2021

Family Law: ten predictions for the next 10 years
Kate Elliott, Family Law PartnersPolly Dallyn, Family Law PartnersIn recognition of the turn of a new decade and a period of fairly momentous change for family law we have teamed up with the top...
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4 October 2021

Postpartum Baby Killing – the need for a new approach (R v Cobley [2021] EWCA Crim 954)
Mary Welstead, CAP Fellow Harvard Law School; Visiting Professor in Family Law University of BuckinghamIn June 2019, a mother received a life sentence for the murder of her new-born baby and, in May...
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