The issue of single parent families has attracted the attention of headline writers for more than a generation. But in the reporting of data relating to them, much of it centres on the two million ...
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In October 2021 the Secretary of State for Justice successfully appealed Hayden J’s decision that a care worker would not offend s 39(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (SOA 2003) if she arranged for ...
As previously mentioned if the husband refuses to give his wife Islamic Talaq the wife would effectively be stuck in her marriage. However Islamic jurisprudence provides for the wife in enabling ...
The case of Waggott v Waggott [2018] EWCA Civ 727 is being hailed by some as the end to the ‘meal ticket’, but the decision in respect of periodical payments is perhaps not surprising, there are few ...
Re M (A Child – Private Law Children Proceedings – Case Management – Intimate Images) (2022) EWHC 986 (Fam). This article summarises and discusses the useful guidance case in relation to the admission ...
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 which came into force on 2 October 2017. The Practice Direction ...
In this article published in Family Law August 2024, the authors expand on their June 2023 article, ‘Recent scientific developments in hair strand testing and racial bias in current practices of hair ...
When Home Secretary Theresa May announced the statutory inquiry into child sexual abuse she also requested a moratorium on the destruction of materials relating to child protection matters. In line ...
In this article we look at the recent decision in the ongoing and highly publicised divorce case of Akhmedova v Akhmedov. This decision is the latest in a long run of enforcement cases brought by the ...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has made available new training on the subject of HMCTS Kinly Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which sets out what CVP is, how to access a CVP room through the ...
What is ‘non-molestation’? How do family courts, by order, deal with ‘molestation’, as it is now defined in law? What is ‘domestic violence’ or (if different) ‘domestic abuse’? Each of these different ...