‘Edward Heaton, Principal Associate and Jane Booth, Associate, both of Mills & Reeve LLP, analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during July 2016.’
Family Law Week, 7th August 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Four members of a Latvian organised crime gang who used vulnerable fellow migrants to launder stolen money and offered their indebted female eastern European workers as brides for hire have been sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison at Huntingdon crown court.’
The Guardian, 20th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Three men and a woman convicted of laundering criminally acquired money in Cambridgeshire after trial over offences relating to exploitation of workers.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A gay clergyman who lost an employment tribunal against the Church of England has been given the right to appeal.’
The Guardian, 15th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘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
‘A heterosexual couple who want to have a civil partnership rather than get married have lost a legal challenge.’
BBC News, 29th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘On 19-20 January, the England and Wales High Court (Mrs. Justice Andrews) heard the judicial review of the ban on different-sex civil partnerships brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan. It was argued on behalf of the supposedly LGBTI-friendly UK Government (represented by Nicky Morgan, the Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities) that the High Court should follow two anti-LGBTI decisions from 2006.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd Janaury 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The legal ban on heterosexual couples entering into civil partnerships is to be challenged in the high court.’
The Guardian, 19th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Babysitter who claimed she was pressured into taking part in sham marriage to man in Blackburn is sentenced to six months in prison.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Edward Heaton, Principal Associate and Jane Booth, Associate, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during December 2015.’
Family Law Week, 8th January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The law that governs how and where couples in England and Wales can marry is badly in need of reform, according to the Law Commission.’
Law Commission, 17th December 2015
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘The facts of Secretary of State for the Home Department v ZP (India) [2015] EWCA Civ 1197 involved some of the worst breaches of immigration law ever seen in a reported decision: overstaying a visit visa in 2002 then organising and taking part in sham marriages, fleeing abroad in 2003 when detected and being convicted in her absence and then re-entering the UK in a false identity in 2005, obtaining settlement in this false identity in 2007 and then on detection being convicted again for breaches of immigration law and, after serving her sentence, being deported in 2009.’
Free Movement, 14th December 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has reiterated that the burden of proof for proving whether a marriage is a sham for immigration law purposes rests with the Home Office. The case is Agho v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1198 and it confirms the obiter remarks of former President Blake in the earlier tribunal case of Entry Clearance Officer, Nicosia v Papajorgji [2012] UKUT 00038 (IAC) (FM post: New case law on meaning of genuine and subsisting marriage).’
Free Movement, 9th December 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘A bride-to-be tried to win a competition for a £25,000 wedding by using thousands of fake email addresses to secure the highest vote.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Younger couples who marry now more likely to stay together past seven year itch than their parents’ generation suggesting ‘living in sin’ makes marriage stronger.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A gay clergyman prevented from taking up a post as a hospital chaplain was not discriminated against, an employment tribunal panel has ruled.’
BBC News, 4th November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A clergyman who wed his partner in a same-sex marriage may have to wait until next year to find out whether a decision by the church to remove his right to officiate was discriminatory.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Andrew Commins, barrister of St John’s Chambers, considers the ECtHR judgment in Oliari v Italy and its wider implications.’
Family Law Week, 24th July 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A woman who was unable to divorce her husband on the grounds of adultery because he had affairs with men wants the law changed.’
BBC News, 1st August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The first priest to marry his same-sex partner has begun a discrimination case against the Church of England over its withdrawal of his right to officiate as a priest following the union.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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