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LATEST FAMILY LAW NEWS
Family courts' plan threaten children's wellbeing, says Children's CommissionerChildren and young people's concerns about the Government's proposal to allow the media to report more widely on family court proceedings are revealed in new research undertaken by the University of Oxford and published yesterday by the Children's Commissioner for England, Dr Maggie Atkinson.Full story: Family Law Newswatch  The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2010These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Rules 1991.Statutory Instrument  The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2010These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Court (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991.Statutory Instrument  Laming says LGA may have misinterpreted key recommendationLord Laming has backed the government's response to his recommendation on initial assessments, claiming the LGA may have "misinterpreted" what he meant.Full story: Community Care  Blow for councils as family court fees abolition is delayedCouncils are "disappointed" that family court fees will not be scrapped until 2011, despite an independent report recommending abolition next month.Full story: Community Care  Supreme Court divorce decision could ‘open the floodgates’The Supreme Court’s decision to top up the financial award made to a divorcee by a Nigerian court could ‘open the floodgates to forum shopping’ and further clog the London courts, family lawyers have warned.Full story: Law Society Gazette  More news... LATEST FAMILY LAW CASES A v L [2010] EWHC 460 (Fam) (11 March 2010)Unreasonable behaviour petition by wife. Husband defended and sought to have the hearing vacated on the grounds that he had already obtained a divorce in Egypt. The court refused to recognise the Egyptian judgment and granted the wife a decree nisi.Full report: Bailii  Doctor A & Ors v Ward & Anor [2010] EWHC 538 (Fam) (15 March 2010)Amendment of earlier order under the 'slip rule'.Full report: Bailii  Birmingham City Council v AG and others [2009] EWHC 3720 (Fam) (6 March 2010)Judgment in care proceedings relating to threshold criteria where one of six children in a family had been suspected of starving to death.Full report: Family Law Week  W v W [2010] EWHC 332 (Fam) (4 March 2010)Application by father for return of three children to the Republic of Ireland under the Hague Convention. Application failed.Full report: Family Law Week  Wakefield MDC v The Media and others [2010] EWHC 262 (Fam) (5 February 2010)Application by parents of adopted children to lift or vary injunctions preventing them from publicising what they consider were the injustices they had suffered.Full report: Family Law Week  LATEST FAMILY LAW ARTICLES Resolution national conference: Chairperson's speechDavid Allison, Resolution Chair, addresses the 2010 annual conference, discussing in particular Resolution's campaigns for law reform.Full article: Resolution  Hedge funds investing in big-time divorceHedge funds are putting up cash for cases, writes Andrew Meehan, a Senior Solicitor at national law firm Mills & Reeve LLP.Full article: City A.M.  What have human rights done for family justice?Resolution national conference keynote address by Mr Justice Andrew Moylan.Full article: Resolution  LATEST FAMILY LAW BLOG POSTS From Secret Court to Star Chamber?This article compares and contrasts the adversarial process with its sister system, the inquisitorial process and highlights the possibility of a power struggle between the judiciary, the legislative and the executive on matters of family law.Post (and link to article): Divorce Manual  Well – DUUR!!News just in from the FLBA: The Report from Francis Plowden – the Review of Court Fees in Child Care Proceedings – was published yesterday.Full post: Pink Tape  Should the ancillary relief system be revised?I have often wondered whether the period between First Appointment and the Financial Dispute Resolution appointment needs to be reconsidered in greater detail.Full post: Marilyn Stowe Blog  Baroness Deech speaks... againBaroness Deech continues her monthly onslaught against the family justice system today with the latest of her public lectures as professor of law at Gresham College, London.Full post: Family Lore  Workload issuesI a sorry to have been neglecting the blog recently but contrary to any pronouncements you may have heard on the radio myself and my colleagues are not noticing any discernible drop in our workloads.Full post: Family Law Week blog  LATEST PODCAST  LoreCast #6 This week Natasha and I discuss three topics: the Supreme Court decision in Agbaje v Akinnoye-Agbaje , the LGA warnings regarding the effects of implementing the recommendations of the Laming Report and Jack Straw's challenge to the recommendation that Sir Nicholas Wall be the next President of the Family Division. At the end, we each tell a 'relationship joke', with Natasha's being somewhat naughty... |
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