Family courts: the vulnerable and the legal aid swamp.
Full post: dbfamilylaw
What price liberty? Damages, DOLS and a cat named Fluffy
On 7 January 2015 District Judge Mort of the Court of Protection approved a £60,000 settlement agreement reached between Essex County Council and Mr P.
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Subjects:
Cases,
Court of Protection
Catch-33: Stringent documentary requirements upheld for legal aid in domestic violence cases
R (on the application of Rights of Women) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 35 (Admin).
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Subjects:
Cases,
Domestic Violence,
Legal Aid
Children and parties
RE M (Republic of Ireland) (Child’s objections) (Joinder of children as parties to appeal) 2015.
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Risks of refusing reasonable offers to settle in divorce cases
The judgment in SR v RS demonstrates that parties cannot, in the face of reasonable offers to settle, continue to litigate matters indefinitely without the spectre of cost sanctions.
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Subjects:
Ancillary Relief,
Cases,
Costs,
Financial Remedies
A family law reform manifesto
With a hundred days to go to an election, my top ten list for law reform (mostly family) would be as follows.
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Subjects:
Family Justice System
Mother allowed to move to Russia under the Hague Convention 1996
The mother of a two year-old boy has been allowed to move back to Russia against the wishes of the father.
Full post: Marilyn Stowe Blog
Full post: Marilyn Stowe Blog
Fifty-fifty – equal parenting time
As far as I know, Re M (A Child) 2014 is the first time the Court of Appeal have dealt with a case involving equal parenting time since the Children and Families Act with its controversial clause came into being.
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Assigning jurisdiction in child abduction cases
The European Court of Justice has given a preliminary ruling on assigning jurisdiction to a specialist court to consider a child abduction case even though another court in the same member state was already seised in parental responsibility proceedings.
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Subjects:
Cases,
Children,
Jurisdiction
Working with mediators
As family practitioners are aware it is now compulsory for the majority of clients to attempt to mediate prior to issuing a court application.
Full post: Family Law Blog
Full post: Family Law Blog
Subjects:
Mediation
Inherent jurisdiction of High Court
UL v BK (Freezing Orders: Safeguards: Standard Examples) [2013] UKHC 1735 (Fam).
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Subjects:
Ancillary Relief,
Cases,
Family Justice System,
Financial Remedies,
Legal System
Unrepresented parents in family cases: are errors going unnoticed?
Is a lack of legal representation in family cases increasing the likelihood of procedural errors going unnoticed?
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Full post: Halsbury's Law Exchange
Munby: Listen to the individuals affected
It is time to take stock in the ‘transparency’ debate and to review a couple of eloquent comments in [2014] Family Law: a Comment from Peggy Ray (a child law solicitor) at 1655 and an article by Dr Julia Brophy, a ‘Principal Researcher in Family Justice’.
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Full post: dbfamilylaw
Subjects:
Transparency
I AM calm!
I have learnt that it is usually a good idea to sleep on it after reading a Christopher Booker article, and not to write in anger.
Full post: Pink Tape
Full post: Pink Tape
Subjects:
Court of Protection
Fair criticism?
Richard Todd QC of 1 Hare Court and Christopher Wagstaffe QC of 29 Bedford Row believe the court failed to address the issues in an appropriate manner in a case where a separating couple had amassed a combined legal bill of £1.3m on all aspects of their dispute (including the children proceedings) following what was described by the judge as ‘titanic litigation’.
Full post: Family Law Blog
Full post: Family Law Blog
Subjects:
Ancillary Relief,
Cases,
Financial Remedies
How to make family hearings fair
Re K and H (Children: unrepresented father: cross-examination of child) [2015] EWFC 1, HHJ Bellamy.
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Full post: UK Human Rights Blog
Subjects:
Children,
Human Rights,
Legal Aid
Court service to pay father’s legal costs K& H
Re K and H (children : Unrepresented father : Cross-Examination of a Child) 2015.
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Full post: suesspiciousminds
Legal aid in 2015—more of the same?
Jon Robins, editor of The Justice Gap, considers what may change for legal aid in 2015.
Full post: Family Law Blog
Full post: Family Law Blog
Subjects:
Legal Aid
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