by Julie Doughty | Mar 6, 2020 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
There’s been an enormous amount of publicity about the case of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his sixth wife, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, since the judgments were released yesterday. Sheikh Mohammed is the head of state of Dubai and has strong...
by Polly Morgan | Mar 3, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Guardian has reported on a divorce case where the wife has received half of the assets plus another £400,000 to compensate her ‘relationship – generated disadvantage: giving up work as a solicitor to become primary carer to the parties’ children while the husband...
by Guest Post | Mar 1, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Laura Vickers. Laura is a specialist children law barrister and mediator practising at No5 Barristers’ Chambers. She tweets as @LauraVickersNo5 Outline This post considers the guidance given by the President of the Family Division in the recent...
by Guest Post | Feb 26, 2020 | Analysis, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a review by new writer Delia Minoprio. Delia is a family law barrister at 1 Crown Office Row specialising in all aspects of children work. She tweets as @familylawdm “When Daniel was put on trial for murdering his son, his...
by Lucy R | Feb 25, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
We’ve been attending hearings under the legal blogging pilot for almost 18 months now, and in that time have covered a range of hearing and case types. But, by the back end of 2019 we were increasingly conscious that we’d not attended much in the way of...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 23, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In this unusual case, Re W (A child: leave to oppose adoption) [2020] EWCA (Civ) 16, the Court of Appeal has given birth parents leave to oppose an adoption order being made. The child is nearly three years old and has been living with his prospective adopters since...
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