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Parental Alienation – what can we tell from published judgments?
Parental alienation (PA) is a controversial subject on which there are widely polarised views, making it difficult to write about in a way that doesn’t attract criticism from some quarter. There were a batch of PA judgments (all about the same family) published...
Reporting on Financial Remedy cases
This is the text of a speech given by journalist Louise Tickle delivered at the At A Glance Conference in London on 13 October 2021, reproduced with kind permission. I’ve never reported on a financial remedy case. I’ve never been in a hearing about one either. ...
Reporting Financial Remedies Cases: The Journalist’s View – A Paper by Sir James Munby
This is the text of a speech delivered at the at the At A Glance Conference in London on 13 October 2021, reproduced with kind thanks to Sir James Munby. I am a mere lawyer. I am neither a reporter nor a journalist, though we will shortly be hearing from a...
More on the Sheikh story
In March 2020, we wrote about the extraordinary family court proceedings involving the two children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai and his sixth wife, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein. One of the most interesting aspects was that the Sheikh did not...
When Worlds – and Words – collide
I’m on holiday in Greece when I hear about a case involving a mother who has taken her children some 10 hours travel-time from the family home, without their father’s knowledge or consent. It’s a case that involves allegations of domestic abuse, a father who admits he...
An example of a family court judgment where the parties are named
We've spotted an interesting decision from last month where a High Court Judge has published a judgment in connection with a jurisdictional dispute arising from a husband's nullity petition, along with the names of both parties. The husband contended the wife's...
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