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‘Eastenders’ and domestic abuse
‘Eastenders’ and domestic abuse This is a post by Yanoulla Kakoulli. Yanoulla is an experienced family law solicitor practising at Pinney Talfourd LLP, which has a tier 1 Legal 500 family team. She has also volunteered as a family law advisor for...
Re A, B & C (Children: Adoption) – trust and honesty
This is a post by Priyanka Patel. Priyanka is a commercial lawyer with an interest in family law, particularly child law. In the recent case of Re A, B & C (Children: Adoption) [2020] EWHC 2335 (Fam), the court made placement orders for the adoption of...
The Prodigal Son in Modern Life
This post originally appeared on Medium and is republished with thanks. It's an explanation of, and commentary about, the recent family court judgment from the former President, Sir James Munby, in FS v RS and JS [2020]. In 1984, the now-defunct Trustee Savings Bank...
Contempt of Court – new rules
Following an earlier consultation, there has been a comprehensive rewriting of the rules of court dealing with the procedure to be adopted in relation to contempt of court. There are new rules in effect from 1 October 2020 in both the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and...
Contempt, court orders and P’s confidentiality
This is a guest post by Alex Ruck Keene, a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers who specialises in Court of Protection work. In a very unusual case, P v Griffith [2020] EWCOP 46, the Court of Protection has sentenced a woman, a Ms Griffith, to 12 months imprisonment for...
That Harms Report – Part 3
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 3 This is a three part blog post. Part 1...
That Harms Report – Part 2
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 2 In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked...
That Harms Report – Part 1
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. I've been chewing this one over for a while...
Of a piece…
We wrote last week about a misleading piece in Byline Times about Afsana Lachaux and the family court litigation she had been involved in. We set out a number of serious errors and omissions from that article that overall gave a significantly distorted impression to...
Remote hearings: Surveying where we are at
As lawyers and judges become increasingly accustomed to remote hearings, is there a danger of professional complacency about parents' access to justice? In April, we published the interim results of our survey about remote hearings in the Family Court which we had...