by Lucy R | Apr 3, 2015 | Cases, Explanation
This case about a financial claim on divorce hit the mainstream media recently (see for example The Telegraph here. The case involved a millionaire divorcee Barry Stocker. At first blush it seems surprising that either one of a wealthy couple should be “left too...
by Lucy R | Apr 3, 2015 | Comment, Trends
This is a guest post by “Judi”. Judi is a parent who has been through the Family Court who has acted as a Litigant in Person and McKenzie Friend. Once upon a time, in this land places called courts used to have public counters that opened reasonable hours,...
by Lucy R | Mar 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
It has been a long time since the President of the Family Division first published his “Next Steps” Transparency Consultation (August 2014) and an even longer time since he took his first steps in that direction, with the publication at the outset of 2014...
by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2015 | Project
We’ve taken the first steps towards becoming a real grown up project. This week our constitution was signed and trustees appointed (Lucy Reed, Sarah Phillimore and Julie Doughty) and our documents have gone off to the Charity Commission to be processed so that...
by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2015 | Cases, Explanation
Lucy Reed has blogged about a recent case where a person committed to prison for contempt of court was initially anonymous due to a reporting restriction order made by a Family Division Judge. The order has now been varied. You can read Lucy’s blog post on Pink...
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