‘The family of an 80-year-old cleared of murdering her husband in a failed suicide pact claim she was “hung, drawn and quartered” by police who said they would make an example of her.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd September 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Laws governing the release of court material to non-parties in civil cases post Cape Intermediate are clear, but has the decision moved transparency laws forward for family proceedings? David Burrows reports.’
Family Law, 19th September 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘It was “manifestly unfair” for a circuit judge to issue a paralegal with a suspended six-month prison sentence for inadvertently breaching the Family Procedure Rules, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 17th September 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Rebecca Probert pays tribute to Stephen Cretney.’
Family Law, 16th September 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The question of whether non-married partners and wider dependent relatives (e.g. grown-up children) of EEA nationals (known as “extended family members”) have a right of appeal against a decision by the Home Secretary to refuse them a residence card under the EEA Regulations has had a fraught recent history.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th September 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A mother jailed over the death of her four-week-old baby after she fell asleep on top of him has been freed by Court of Appeal judges.’
BBC News, 10th September 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A student engineer framed his own brother as a drink driver after he was caught drunk at the wheel of a college friend’s car.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th September 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The government needs to take action to end the “irreparable harm” inflicted on children whose mothers are in prison, MPs and peers have warned. Courts often do not have adequate information about whether a defendant has children and how a sentence would impact their lives, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.’
The Independent, 9th September 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The “Commorientes Rule” is (meaning “simultaneous deaths”) found in Section 184 of the Law of Property Act 1925. This rule states that if two or more people die in circumstances where it is not possible to determine who died first, the younger is deemed to survive the elder.’
Family Law, 6th September 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Rose-Marie Drury, Principal Associate, Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during August 2019.’
Family Law Week, 6th September 2019
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Home Office is looking to end the current system which reunites asylum-seeking children with their families if a no-deal Brexit goes through.’
Rights Info, 2nd September 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘A county council has agreed to pay £24,000 after a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman investigation into a case where a mother of three, who also took on the care of her two grandchildren, had to sleep on a mattress in her living room for more than 10 years because the local authority did not deliver the support it had agreed to.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man has been cleared of a criminal offence over a video that showed a model of a building marked “Grenfell Tower” being burned, while a group of friends laughed and joked.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A wife who was sued by her husband after it was revealed that her eight-year-old son is not his must reveal the name of the biological father to her husband and child.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has successfully prosecuted a man who fraudulently tried to take over the council tenancy of a resident who had passed away by pretending to be his nephew.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘It’s a common mistake for journalists (and others) to refer to the Children’s Act. Pedantic family lawyers bristle at this (it’s the Children Act). But pedantry aside, this error is often a clue that something has been written without much input from a lawyer. And so it seems with the Sunday Mirror’s various campaign pieces published today about the law on protecting children from violent parents, which feature far worse mistakes than punctuation.’
Transparency Project, 18th August 2019
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘R (on the application of Abdullah Muhammad Rafiqul Islam) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 2169 (Admin). In a case that was described as “the first such case to have come on for hearing before this court” and one that shares many similarities with the tabloid-grabbing story of Shamima Begum (discussed on the Blog here), Mr Justice Pepperall refused permission to bring judicial review proceedings on behalf of an Islamic State combatant whose citizenship had been revoked by the Home Secretary.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th August 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The father of murdered child James Bulger has urged the Parole Board to prevent one of his son’s killers from having the chance to “harm young children again” ahead of his impending release.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a “coward” for revoking his British citizenship.’
BBC News, 18th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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