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09 January 2023
In this article for Family Law Journal Elizabeth Darlington considers three keys issues which frequently arise when a couple have cohabited for a long time, or they have been separated for a long time before the courts are asked to deal with their property and financial issues.
19 December 2022
Beth Hibbert summarised J v H [2022] EWFC 133 for Family Law Week
15 December 2022
On the 1st December 2022 the Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of the Tribunals announced a change in the practice of how certain Judges are addressed in court. Julien Foster subsequently wrote an article for The Spectator on the tricky business of how to address judges.
17 August 2022
Eleri Jones contributed to the latest issue of International Family Law Journal with the article 'Cross-border conflicts in the Courts'
26 May 2022
David Burles writes about the art of achieving settlement at a Private FDR for Family Law Journal.
15 April 2022
Lucy Bennet summarised P v Q (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC B9, (In which Simon Sugar represented the husband) for Family Law Week.
07 February 2022
David Burles, barrister and Deputy District Judge sitting in the ‘complex financial remedy cases’ division at the Central Family Court looks at the new D81, announced today 7.2.21 and the impact it might have on applications for consent orders to be approved.
22 November 2021
BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87 (Mostyn J)
11 November 2021
Katherine Dunseath and Daniel Eames publised an article with Family Law Journal regarding the Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres case.
08 October 2021
Tahmina Rahman considers the issues in the conjoined appeals in Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council v AM.
10 September 2021
Simon Sugar considers the case ND (by her litigation friend KW) v GD [2021] EWFC 53 in front of Mr Justice Peel.
10 August 2021
Tahmina Rahman discusses E V L, an important new authority for cases involving short childless marriages.
01 July 2021
Elisabeth Andrews discusses Universal Credit, providing a guide for family law practitioners when navigating this issue.
14 June 2021
Tahmina Rahman summarises the issues in relation to a case where there is a legal test to discharge a care order.
14 May 2021
Andrew Bagchi QC and Anna Lavelle examine an important Court of Appeal ruling on fact-finding hearings and Lucas directions, and considerations of children giving oral evidence in family proceedings.
12 May 2021
Eleri Jones and Graeme Fraser explore the recognition and enforcement of maintenance following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
26 April 2021
Tahmina Rahman considers the issues in the High Court case YY (Children: Conduct of the Local Authority) [2021] EWHC 749 (Fam),...
18 February 2021
Tahmina Rahman considers NB v MI [2021] EWHC 224 (Fam) in which she appeared at the High Court in front of Mr Justice Mostyn.
05 February 2021
A Judge was scathing in his criticism of a local authority's failures, which resulted in a young boy being left in foster care for at least nine months longer than neccessary. Tahmina Rahman considers the practical implications of this case.
03 February 2021
Tahmina Rahman considers the guidance provided by the Court of Appeal to local authorities concerning duty of disclosure in care proceedings and concealed pregnancies.
11 January 2021
Simon Sugar considers a case which dispels any suggestion that an unperfected Rose order is subject to any substantive difference in treatment to an “ordinary” order of the court.
23 December 2020
Simon Sugar considers a big money, long-marriage financial remedies dispute and, conduct apart, a paradigm case for the application of the equal sharing principle.
21 October 2020
Tahmina Rahman, examines the issues around the recusal application in family proceedings and the Court’s consideration of the test for actual or perceived bias in the case of Re C (a child)(2020) EWCA Civ 987.
05 June 2020
Elisabeth Andrews reviews the judgment in A Local Authority v The Mother and Ors [2020] EWHC 1233 (Fam).
04 June 2020
Matthew Fletcher considers two recent decisions and analyses whether common threads that emerge could assist practitioners in advising clients and making submissions to the court as to whether a case is suitable to be heard remotely.
25 November 2019
The Court of Appeal clarifies that the inherent jurisdiction is not available where the 1996 Hague Convention applies. Eleri Jones considers the implications of the decision.
04 October 2019
Francesca Wiley QC considers the changing approach to parental alienation in the family courts, in the October 2019 edition of the Family Law journal.
03 October 2018
Katherine Dunseath and Joanne Wescott examine the Supreme Court decision in Mills v Mills, and the approach to variation of periodical payments subsequent to a capital order.
16 August 2018
Louise MacLynn, Sharon Segal and Olivia Magennis consider the implications of the judgment for local authorities, parents and their legal advisers in Williams v The London Borough of Hackney.
29 June 2018
Family analysis: What factors should parties take into consideration in identifying realistic placement options for a child at the start of care proceedings?
28 June 2018
Gemma Kelly and Nina Hansen, partner at Freemans Solicitors, examine the decision in A Local Authority v US and Others (in which they represented the mother) and its practical implications.
01 February 2018
Eleri Jones contributed to "Divorce jurisdiction after Brexit" (February 2017)
01 October 2017
A paper submitted to the UK Government setting out the options available in respect of ...
21 September 2017
Post-Brexit frameworks - what are the options?
17 July 2017
Cross examination and court processes are vital to ensuring family justice is fair and transparent, writes Julien Foster.
24 March 2017
The article continues Christopher’s regular reviews of the more important recent financial remedy cases, this one covering the period from October 2016 to March 2017
28 June 2016
Although only two months since our last newsletter much of note has happened. In the following articles Joint Head of...
20 June 2016
Welcome. I am delighted to introduce this first newsletter of 2016; shorter than its predecessors, we hope to produce them more frequently.
09 June 2016
Local Government analysis: Birmingham’s children’s services department is to be run by a trust. Matthew Fletcher...
26 June 2015
Our Spring Newsletter is now available to download. In this issue Deirdre Fottrell QC revisits Habitual Residence – The...
Deirdre Fottrell KC and Sharon Segal contributed an article on legal parentage in the context of surrogacy: a review of X v Z (Parental Order Adult) to the September edition of the Family Law Journal.
