‘In a scathing judgment, the president of the Family Division has condemned as “social engineering” a local authority’s application to remove a baby boy permanently from the care of his father and place him for adoption.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th February 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Family proceedings involving children where neither parent had legal representation, increased by 30% in the family court in 2013-14, revealed the National Audit Office last year in a report on legal aid.’
The Future of Law, 20th February 2015
Source: www.blogs.lexisnexis.co.uk
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from January 2015.’
Family Law Week, 19th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘DNA tests in family courts will be provided across England from later this year, Justice Minister Simon Hughes has announced.’
Ministry of Justice, 17th February 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Courts which help parents deal with drug or alcohol addiction so they can keep their children are to be opened in more areas of England.’
BBC News, 18th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Family court judges in England will be able to order DNA tests to determine a child’s parentage from September, Justice Minister Simon Hughes has said.’
BBC News, 17th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Tom Wilson, pupil at 1 Garden Court Family Law Chambers, examines the possibility of a partial re-introduction of the Calderbank offer.’
Family Law Week, 12th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Anita Mehta, barrister of Crown Office Row, Brighton, argues that Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 applications should not be regarded as the domain of footballers’ girlfriends or the uber-wealthy but as a powerful tool for meeting children’s needs in a wide variety of cases.’
Full story
Family Law Week, 6th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Financial Remedies Working Group (“the group”) was established by the President of the Family Division in June 2014. It has been chaired by Nicholas Mostyn J and Stephen Cobb J.
The group produced an interim report on 31 July 2014, making a number of recommendations. This final report should be read in conjunction with that interim report.’
Judiciary of England and Wales, 28th January 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘B and G (Children) (No.2) [2015] EWFC 3. Contemplating the details of different forms of female genital mutilation is not for the faint hearted. But that is what the courts and the relevant experts have to do, not only to protected alleged victims but to defend the interests of those suspected of perpetuating the procedure, whether it is a question of criminal liability under the FGM Act 2003, or determining that a threshold of harm has been passed so as to initiate care proceedings if the victim is a child.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Is a lack of legal representation in family cases increasing the likelihood of procedural errors going unnoticed? The judgment in Re P (A Child) suggests that there is a pressing need for change by the courts and judiciary.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th January 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Judicial Office names judge in Reading case as Eleanor Owens after identities of everyone involved kept secret in highly-unusual move.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The first two reported cases of the year in the Family Court are both concerned with the difficulties litigants – not to mention practitioners, and the courts – are now faced with when trying to navigate the legal aid system. The first – about which we posted here – concerned an unrepresented father who couldn’t get legal aid despite needing to cross-examine a child who had accused him of abuse, leading to the court to order that he be funded outside the legal aid scheme.’
Full story
Legal Aid Handbook, 11th January 2015
Source: www.legalaidhandbook.com
‘Geraldine Morris reviews the family law changes in 2014 & makes predictions for the year ahead.’
New Law Journal, 8th January 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘Sir James Munby seeks to head off collapse in adoption placements warning that children could be put at risk by new obsession with keeping them with relatives ‘at all costs’.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A father who was banned from his own street, cut off from his children for five months, with no opportunity to defend himself, and then arrested for text messaging his son, was treated like a character from a Kafka novel, a senior judge has admitted.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Speech by The Hon. Mr Justice Mostyn: The Craft of Judging and Legal Reasoning at the Bristol University School of Law on 8 December 2014.’
Judiciary of England and Wales, 12th December 2014
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The Lord Chief Justice has today laid his annual report before Parliament. His report looks back at the past 12 months and explains how the judiciary have administered justice across all jurisdictions by focusing on key priorities.’
Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th December 2014
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘A judge has taken the unusual step of removing most case documents from court and giving partners a final ultimatum to settle their separation dispute.’
Law Society’s Gazette,
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A new report on litigants in person in private family law cases has added to concerns over the value and legitimacy of McKenzie Friends in the legal services market. The report, commissioned and published by the Ministry of Justice, into litigants in person in the family courts (here) found the Legal Services Consumer Panel’s recommendation that professional McKenzie Friends be recognised as a legitimate part of the market (reported here) ‘somewhat surprising’.’
LegalVoice, 4th December 2014
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
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