The recent case of footballer Kyle Walker and his girlfriend Lauryn Goodman is a useful illustration of the approach the courts will take in financial provision cases where the parties have not been married, write Samantha Farndale, partner at Stowe Family Law, and Tara Lyons, barrister at Pump Court Chambers, in this week’s NLJ
The relationship between foster parents and a local authority was held to be akin to employment even though the foster parents and foster child were related, in a recent Court of Appeal case on vicarious liability for abuse suffered
If the new Labour Lord Chancellor could make three changes to family law procedure, what should they be?
Family lawyers have raised concerns about the suspected inflicted head injury service (SIHIS), currently being piloted at NHS trusts in Birmingham, Manchester & Sheffield
It’s 50 years since the 1974 Finer Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families, so what has been achieved?
Slater Heelis brings Probate and Court of Protection expertise together with new dedicated team
Antonia Power joins Clarke Willmott in Taunton
Chris Acton joins Haynes Boone as chair of UK derivatives platform
Finding matrimonial wealth is as challenging as dividing it, as family disputes draw practitioners into asset tracing, offshore structures and insolvency