“A teenager who beat his mother to death with a hammer and burned her body in a ‘chilling’ murder inspired by a Coronation Street plot has been jailed for at least 16 years.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row examines the advantages to child, parents and local authority of using section 34 of the Children Act.”
Family Law Week, 31st March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“Joanna Grandfield, Associate (barrister), Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the key financial remedies cases arising in the first quarter of 2012.”
Family Law Week, 30th March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“A businessman has failed in his High Court bid to prevent his wife being told of the birth of his twins from a secret relationship.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Annual Resolution Conference (PDF)
Speech by Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division
Annual Resolution Conference, 24th March 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Thousands of families whose relatives were killed by asbestos cancers will win a landmark compensation victory this week, sources have told The Independent on Sunday. The Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday that insurers who offered cover at the time victims inhaled the deadly fibres will have to pay compensation.”
The Independent, 25th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“For the last four years, London’s family drug and alcohol court has been trying to get drug and alcohol misusing families back on track. It has done so by following a different approach from the traditional, more punitive measures adopted by the mainstream courts. Joshua Rozenberg visits the court to find out how effective its pioneering work has been and what those who use it think of it. He speaks to those involved in the day-to-day work of the court – including the district judge, the principals of the main charity involved in its creation, legal representatives and others with expert knowledge of the problems which the court’s family users must tackle to put their lives back in order – and talks to observers of the court who have reservations about its approach. Law in Action discovers how far this innovative – but expensive – legal model is one which can realistically be emulated elsewhere in the UK when public funds are under such pressure.”
BBC Law in Action, 13th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On 22 February 2012 a new arbitration scheme was launched. The IFLA (Institute of Family Law Arbitrators) Scheme is the result of a collaboration between resolution, the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and the Centre for Child and Family Law Reform (CCFLR) the whole issue of family law arbitration has been under consideration for about the last decade and during that time a number of family lawyers, arbitrators and judges have worked tirelessly to assist in the formulation of the scheme and its rules.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 13th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Family arbitration – a soft launch or a hard landing? Some provisional thoughts.”
Family Law week, 26th February 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Launch of family arbitration scheme provokes debate about enforceability of awards.”
Family Law Week, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Sir Andrew McFarlane was promoted to the Court of Appeal in July 2011, the most recent appointment in a meteoric career that began in the drama department of Durham University. As he explains in conversation with Family Affairs, his preferred activities at University involved drama, student politics and the church. Law seems to have been an after-thought and he is (probably) the only member of the current Court of Appeal able to boast of a third class degree. Beware the temptation, however, to assume that Andrew has a third class mind; his progress from provincial practice in the West Midlands to a glittering leading career at 1KBW, authorship of the leading text book on Child Law, a raft of committee appointments including Chairmanship of the FLBA, the High Court bench at 51 and the Court of Appeal at 57 bear testament to a distinctly first class brain with application to match.”
Family Law Bar Association, 20th February 2012
Source: www.flba.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC reviews the most significant of the latest judgments in private law Children applications.”
Family Law Week, 7th February 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Fathers and mothers should be entitled to a legally binding ‘presumption of shared parenting’ after separation, the government has announced, rejecting advice by an independent review on family justice.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nicholas Crichton, a family judge, tells Juliet Rix that we need more courts to help parents to tackle their drug and alcohol problems.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tomorrow, 1st February, is the start date for new contracts for family and housing with family practitioners.”
Legal Aid Handbook, 31st January 2012
Source: www.legalaidhandbook.com
“Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has today (23 January) urged separating couples to consider mediation when they separate or divorce, instead of turning to the courts.”
Ministry of Justice, 23rd January 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to ‘family life’.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The family of a former public schoolboy gunned down in a pub have been refused in their request to find out if his killer was in the country legally – to protect his privacy.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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