‘An exquisite £8 million Ming porcelain collection built up by a confidant of Margaret Thatcher has sparked a bitter legal feud which has torn apart a once close-knit family.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘UK citizens are being forced into exile by the Home Office’s “irrational and absurd” minimum-income visa requirements, with some couples having no hope of ever being able to live together in Britain, the supreme court has heard.’
The Guardian, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Ahead of a supreme court challenge to the minimum income requirement for partner visas, three couples discuss their situation.’
The Guardian, 21st February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The families of UK citizens denied the right to live in Britain because of the minimum income visa requirement for non-EU partners are to challenge the rules in the supreme court on Monday.’
The Guardian, 22nd Febraury 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘For some families it could amount to a potential 129-fold increase in costs.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who lived with her partner for 18 years has won a legal battle with his estranged wife for his share of their home.’
BBC News, 16th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘According to the Law Society Gazette, the outcome of more than 2,000 may have been voided by the Form E software fault. Justice Minister Shailesh Vara MP has indicated, in a statement to Parliament, that the assets of more than 3,600 couples were miscalculated.’
Family Law Week, 15 February 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Habitual residence lies at the heart of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“the 1980 Hague Convention”), and is the cornerstone of jurisdiction in international child law. Yet despite the centrality of the concept, its definition and application have always left much room for argument; and although it is often described as “a question of fact”, it has generated large volumes of authority at the highest level.’
Family Law Week, 14 February 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A family court judge has made decisions about the future of a teenage girl whose parents took opposites sides after her brother went on trial accused of raping her.’
Independent, 16 February 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The EU’s top court has told the home secretary, Theresa May, she cannot deport a Moroccan mother with a British-born son simply because she has a criminal record.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Bernard Hogan-Howe to meet Brittan’s widow to discuss Scotland Yard’s failure to confirm former home secretary’s innocence before his death.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘R(C) v. Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 2. When is it right to keep the names of parties to litigation a secret? That was the difficult question the Supreme Court had to grapple with in this judgment, handed down on Wednesday. The decision to allow a double-murderer to remain anonymous led to outraged headlines in the tabloids. Yet the Court reached the unanimous conclusion that this was the right approach. Why?.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th January 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Steinfeld & Anor v The Secretary of State for Education [2016] EWHC 128 (Admin). The High Court has ruled in the case of Steinfeld and Keidan v Secretary of State for Education, a human rights challenge to the law of Civil Partnerships. Mrs Justice Andrews ruled that the current law does not breach the human rights of opposite-sex couples who cannot obtain a Civil Partnership.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st January 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Association of Lawyers for Children and the National Association of Guardians ad Litem and Reporting Officers respond to recent guidance given in the Central Family Court on the need for guardians to justify their attendance at care hearings save in specified circumstances.’
Family Law Week, 31st January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Secretary of State for the Home Department had no discretion to refuse citizenship by naturalisation under section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981 in order to deter potential extremists from their activities through knowing that family members would not be naturalised in consequence.’
WLR Daily, 3rd December 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The background to stories of conflict between the two Houses of Parliament has changed during our lifetime. A generation ago, unelected members of the Upper House were notorious for streaming into London from their country seats to vote in vast numbers in favour of reactionary measures like the notorious poll tax, from which they stood to gain handsomely.’
The Independent, 26th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A father who was publicly identified by a high court judge for sexually assaulting his baby daughter shortly before she died has fled abroad after receiving death threats, his family has said.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Samuel Littlejohns, barrister, 1 Hare Court, considers legal, evidential and practical problems that can arise in real property disputes where family members share property based on intentions and cultural understandings which do not easily fall within the classifications of English law.’
Family Law Week, 15th January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Andrew Powell, barrister, of 4 Paper Buildings reviews recent developments in surrogacy law.’
Family Law Week, 13th January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
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