Children: Private Law Update (November 2012) – Family Law Week
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings reviews important recent developments relating to private children law.”
Family Law week, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Category: families
Baronet’s son awarded £5.60 in £2.5m family castle sale row – Daily Telegraph
“The son of a baronet embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with his father over the sale of the family’s £2 million estate was yesterday awarded just £5.60 a year by the High Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
New immigration rules accused of splitting up families – The Independent
“Britons on low incomes are being forced to live apart from their families because of new immigration rules that rate their marriages as ‘second class’, campaigners say.”
The Independent, 17th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Housing: between a rock and a hard place – LegalVoice
“Desperation among local authority housing departments is running so high that homeless families are regularly told they can be given accommodation only if their children go into care, writes Elizabeth Davidson. This shocking response on the part of the authorities is clearly a fob-off given that this would not only breach their legal duties but would cost their social services departments a lot of money.”
LegalVoice, 13th November 2012
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
K v Bundesasylamt – WLR daily
K v Bundesasylamt: Case C-245/11; [2012] WLR (D) 309
“On the proper construction of article 15(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 (establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the member state responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the member states by a third country national), a member state which was not responsible for examining an application for asylum pursuant to the criteria laid down in Chapter III of the Regulation became so responsible where there were humanitarian grounds for the application. In those circumstances, it was for the member state which had become the responsible member state to assume the obligations which went along with that responsibility and inform the member state previously responsible.”
WLR Daily, 6th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
How UK immigration laws are splitting families apart – BBC News
“The government’s promise to reduce net migration by 2015 includes measures that have made it more difficult for people from outside Europe to join family members in the UK, creating tough choices for some British residents.”
BBC News, 6th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother of man with cerebral palsy sues hospital over son’s DNR order – The Guardian
“The mother of a 28-year-old man with cerebral palsy is suing the hospital where he died, alleging its staff failed to consult her on a decision not to attempt resuscitation and did not administer his medication appropriately.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Liverpool Care Pathway: Relatives ‘must be informed’ – BBC News
“Relatives of terminally-ill patients would have to be consulted before a decision to withdraw food or water is taken, under new government proposals.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Unacceptable force’ used by G4S staff deporting pregnant woman – The Guardian
“A pregnant woman in a wheelchair was tipped up and had her feet held by staff from G4S, the firm behind the Olympics security shambles, as she was forcibly removed from the country. The disclosure comes in the first report into conditions at a new centre designed to hold families facing deportation from the UK.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Where next for the Hillsborough families? – BBC Law in Action
“Joshua Rozenberg asks where next for the families of those who died at Hillsborough.”
BBC Law in Action, 16th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
LASPO and the domestic violence gateway – LegalVoice
“As a solicitor, who set up a firm with two other family lawyers in 2005 primarily to deal with family legal aid cases for the mixed housing area of Shirley in Southampton where we practice, I was very concerned when I heard of the proposed new reforms for family legal aid work, writes Wendy Hewstone. I am a member of the Legal Aid Practitioner Group committee and have the Law Society council seat for the group so was probably more aware of the proposed changes than many and have seen and responded to numerous consultation papers.”
LegalVoice, 15th October 2012
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
Enhancing the Role of Grandparents in the Current Legal Landscape – Family Law Week
“Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row suggests some ways to benefit children by strengthening the position of grandparents.”
Family Law week, 12th October 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Hospital allowed to withhold lifesaving treatment from brain-damaged man – The Guardian
“A court has allowed a hospital trust to withhold live-saving treatment from a severely brain-damaged man if his condition deteriorates, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 8th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lord McNally’s speech to the Birmingham Law Society Family Conference 2012 – Ministry of Justice
“Lord McNally’s speech to the Birmingham Law Society Family Conference 2012.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st October 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Phone hacking: judge reveals relative is among claimants – The Guardian
“The high court judge presiding over 155 civil damages claims for alleged phone hacking being brought against News of the World’s publisher has disclosed that one of his relatives is among the fresh cases.”
The Guardian, 25th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hillsborough investigation launched by SRA – Law Society’s Gazette
“The role and conduct of solicitors involved in legal proceedings following the 1989 Hillsborough disaster will be investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the regulator announced today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th September 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Controlling partners ‘to be prosecuted for domestic abuse’ – Daily Telegraph
“Men who emotionally abuse their partners by controlling their finances, preventing them from seeing friends or verbally abusing them could soon be prosecuted under domestic violence laws, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Fact Finding Hearings: Who Pays? – Family Law Week
“Stuart Hughes, Senior Solicitor at Greene and Greene Solicitors, and Sabuhi Chaudhry, barrister at Coram Chambers, consider recent developments concerning costs in fact finding hearings and the divergence between private law and public law cases.”
Family Law Week, 14th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Czop and another – WLR Daily
“Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community conferred on the person who was the primary carer of a migrant worker’s or former migrant worker’s child who was attending educational courses in the host member state a right of residence in that state, although the provision could not be interpreted as conferring such a right on the person who was the primary carer of the child of a self-employed person. Article 16(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the member states meant that a European Union citizen who was a national of a member state which had recently acceded to the European Union could, pursuant to that provision, rely on a right of permanent residence where he or she had resided in the host member state for a continuous period of more than five years, part of which had been completed before the accession of the former state to the European Union, provided that the residence was in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 7(1) of Directive 2004/38.”
WLR Daily, 6th September 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hillsborough families have the truth. Justice will take longer – The Guardian
“What is the next step legally? Joshua Rozenberg explores the options for a new inquest, public inquiry or criminal proceedings.”
The Guardian, 12th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
