“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse December’s financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Family Law Week, 4th January 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“R on the application of Louisa Hodkin v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2012] EWHC 3635 (Admin). Ouseley J has dismissed a challenge by the applicant against the Registrar General’s decision not to register a chapel of the Church of Scientology as ‘a place of meeting for religious worship’ which in turn means it is not a registered building for the solemnisation of marriages.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th December 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A member of the Church of Scientology has lost her fight to get married in one of its chapels after the high court dismissed her claim that she was the victim of unlawful religious discrimination.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Unfaithful husbands could attempt to stop their wives divorcing them for adultery if gay marriage is legalised, according to senior lawyers.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“On the proper interpretation of article 3(1)(c) and 3(3) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, assistance granted to public servants in the event of illness fell within the scope of the Directive if it was the responsibility of the state, as a public employer, to finance it, that being a matter for the national court to determine.”
WLR Daily, 6th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Prime Minister has announced his support for gay marriage in religious institutions. Having already said, memorably, that ‘I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative’, he has now gone a step further and argued that gay couples should be able to marry on religious premises. But, he also made clear, ‘if there is any church or any synagogue or any mosque that doesn’t want to have a gay marriage it will not, absolutely must not, be forced to hold it’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th December 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Scientologists have launched a landmark legal bid to overturn marriage laws in England and Wales. Followers of the controversial new religion believe it is unfair that Protestants, Catholics, Quakers, Jews and Non-Conformists are allowed to have state sanctioned marriages in their religious buildings whilst other faiths are not.”
The Independent, 24th October 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Out of his shadow: The long struggle of wives under English Law (PDF)
The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire’s Annual Law Lecture, 9th October 2012
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Anna Heenan and Nicola Rowlings, both of Mills & Reeve LLP, analyse September’s financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Family Law Week, 8th October 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“From today couples tying the knot will be given greater freedom of choice as outdated time restrictions on ceremonies are removed.”
Home Office, 1st October 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Andrew Commins, barrister, associate member of St John’s Chambers in Bristol analyses the legal issues relating to the question of gay marriage.”
Family Law Week, 24th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“Schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff that wilfully fail to use stories or textbooks promoting same-sex weddings, it is claimed. Aidan O’Neill, a senior QC and expert on religious freedom and human rights, also warned that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their child from lessons.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Bedfordshire restaurant owner has been found guilty of being involved in a sham marriage scam.”
BBC News, 29th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Dr John Fox and Eleanor Fletcher, both barristers at Lamb Building, consider the lessons to be learned from the court’s approach to determining the validity of the parties’ marriage in Dukali v Lamrani.”
Family Law Week, 14th August 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
MA v JA (Attorney General intervening) [2012] EWHC 2219 (Fam); [2012] WLR (D) 246
“A ceremony of marriage conducted in England which did not comply with the requirements of the Marriage Act 1949 because the parties had failed to give notice to the registrar with the result that the marriage was solemnised without any certificate being issued, created a marriage which was entitled to be recognised as valid under English law.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Serial bride who met and married her third husband through a Muslim dating site was jailed for eight years for planning to launch a terrorist attack upon Jewish communities in Manchester.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the latest financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Family Law Week, June 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“The debate over same-sex unions could have been avoided if civil partnerships had been described as marriage by the Government, a top divorce lawyer has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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