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Geraldine Morris

Solicitor

Geraldine Morris is a solicitor and head of LexisPSL Family. Twitter: @GeraldineMorris

Solicitor

Geraldine Morris is a solicitor and head of LexisPSL Family. Twitter: @GeraldineMorris

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Reform is a constant feature of the family justice system—Geraldine Morris questions whether the underlying issues are being addressed

Geraldine Morris considers when applications within financial remedy proceedings should be heard separately

Geraldine Morris looks at the newly elected government’s plans & the potential impact on family law

Geraldine Morris reviews the family law changes in 2014 & makes predictions for the year ahead

Geraldine Morris looks at the changes ahead for family law & predicts some new developments

Geraldine Morris tracks recent attempts to clarify cohabitation

Geraldine Morris assesses the implications of Prest on family law

Geraldine Morris examines the issues of occupation rent & equitable accounting in cohabitant cases

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

International arbitration team strengthened by double partner hire

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Firm celebrates trio holding senior regional law society and junior lawyers division roles

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Partner joins commercial and business litigation team in London

NEWS
The Legal Action Group (LAG)—the UK charity dedicated to advancing access to justice—has unveiled its calendar of training courses, seminars and conferences designed to support lawyers, advisers and other legal professionals in tackling key areas of public interest law
Refusing ADR is risky—but not always fatal. Writing in NLJ this week, Masood Ahmed and Sanjay Dave Singh of the University of Leicester analyse Assensus Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd: despite repeated invitations to mediate, the defendant stood firm, made a £100,000 Part 36 offer and was ultimately ‘wholly vindicated’ at trial
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
Employment law is shifting at the margins. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ this week, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School examines a Court of Appeal ruling confirming that volunteers are not a special legal species and may qualify as ‘workers’
Criminal juries may be convicting—or acquitting—on a misunderstanding. Writing in NLJ this week Paul McKeown, Adrian Keane and Sally Stares of The City Law School and LSE report troubling survey findings on the meaning of ‘sure’
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