The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...

Despite disability being a Section 25 factor in its own right, there is a dearth of resources specifically addressing the same. Often rolled into earning capacity, disability in one or more parties to ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...

Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...

In Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partners) [2005] 2 FLR 957, the parties had cohabited in a same-sex relationship for 8 years, during which time the respondent gave birth to two children conceived by ...

Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) sets out the basic legislative framework for the protection of victims of Domestic Violence in England and Wales. With very limited exceptions all ...

Lucy Crompton, Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire University: The pilot scheme for Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs) and Orders (DVPOs) ended in the summer of 2012. At the time of writing, the ...

Philip Moor QC has been appointed as a High Court Judge. The appointment follows the elevation of Mr Justice McFarlane to the Court of Appeal. Mr Moor, 52, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in ...

The Financial Remedies Unit at the Central Family Court is running a pilot scheme for an accelerated First Appointment procedure in financial remedy proceedings. The FRU hears thousands of cases each ...

Alison Bull, Legal Director, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Manchester, Leeds and London. The long awaited Court of Appeal judgment in this case was handed down this morning, 24 May 2007, following a three ...

Does this ring a bell? You sit opposite a client whose face gradually lengthens, whose mouth drops and whose eyes widen in dismay and disbelief as you describe how long it takes to bring matrimonial ...