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Something is going on with experts
This article was originally published in Family Law ([2022] Fam Law 422) in April 2022, and is reproduced here with kind permission. In October 2021 the President published a memorandum about experts. In it, Sir Andrew reminded us of four key questions to be asked in...
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Re H [2022]EWFC 10: Guidance in Learning Disability Cases
This is a post by regular contributor, Abigail Bond. Abigail is a barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol who specialises in Children Law (mainly care proceedings), and Court of Protection health and welfare matters. She tweets as @AbigailBond1. The Good...
Parenthood following surrogacy: recent cases further highlight need for reform
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is a guest post by Lottie Park-Morton, Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Gloucestershire, who is currently undertaking a PhD on surrogacy and children’s...
The value of the “small money” divorce case: why we need more judgments from everyday Family Court finance cases, and what we can learn from them
This is a guest post from Iain Large. Iain is a barrister at St John's Chambers and tweets as @ijmlarge. In this article Iain looks at two recent lower-value judgments in financial remedies cases on divorce, examples of the sorts of decisions taken on a daily basis by...
Divorce doom? Why last week’s “surge” in divorces doesn’t spell mayhem for marriage
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards, Partner and Head of Family, Forsters LLP. Jo tweets as @MissJoEdwards. The headline in last Wednesday's Daily Mail, a week to the day since the new no fault divorce process was introduced in England and Wales, was as predictable as...
FAMILY COURT REPORTING WATCH ROUNDUP
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS The Mail, Guardian and others-...
K v K – Court of Appeal give guidance on fact-finding hearings and on MIAMs
UPDATE: 18.12.23: Analysis of developments in the case, which cast a whole new light on the facts and issues, is now published here - What happened to the Ks? UPDATE: 25.11.23: A fact finding hearing and a welfare hearing have now been held, and we'll be publishing a...
The cost of transparency
The case of Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 has hit the headlines because of the eye watering legal costs, and the excoriating judicial criticism of the parties for running them up. But Xanthopoulos is not only interesting because of its extraordinary financial...
Griffiths v Tickle (Part 2): the QC who let the skeleton out of the section 12 closet
Andrew Griffiths, the disgraced former MP who was found by a family court to have raped and abused his wife, wanted his case to remain as secret as possible. No names, no bad publicity. But his own barrister has now been forced to apologise to the court for breaching...
B v P – an appeal against findings where the court did not follow correct procedures about abuse allegations
This is a follow-up post about an appeal in proceedings about child arrangements (contact between two young sisters and their father) heard at Portsmouth Family Court. The appeal was against decisions made further to a fact-finding hearing, which the mother claimed...