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What rights do women have to conceal their pregnancy from the fathers-to-be? Julie O'Malley explores the issues

Family lawyers say root causes of disputed contact arrangements need to be addressed

Dorothea Gartland discusses the difficulties of obtaining parental responsibility orders prior to adoption

Re A (a child) (joint residence: parental responsibility) [2008] EWCA Civ 867, [2008] 3 FCR 107

Re W [2008] EWCA Civ 538, [2008] All ER (D) 258 (May)

Dorothea Gartland considers the impact of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 on placement orders

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David Burrows considers the fairness of delayed lump sum payments when recession hits

Re X and Y (Bundles) [2008] EWHC 2058 (Fam)

Re R (a child)(fact finding hearing) [2008] All ER (D) 243 (Jul)

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Moore Barlow—Jess Ready & Natasha Jones

Commercial property and corporate teams expand in Southampton

Watershed—Rob Elliott

Employment firm expands capability with experienced hire

Devonshires—Aoife Murphy & Mandeep Sahota

Housing management and property litigation team bolstered by partner hires

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Emergency lawyers on call as international regulatory actions soar

Law firm HFW is offering clients lawyers on call for dawn raids, sanctions issues and other regulatory emergencies

NLJ this week: Promises broken on non-molestation orders?

Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection

NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins

From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act

NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope

Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961

NLJ this week: Failure to deliver in Getty v Stability AI

The long-awaited Getty Images v Stability AI judgment arrived at the end of last year—but not with the seismic impact many expected. In this week's issue of NLJ, experts from Arnold & Porter dissect a ruling that is ‘historic’ yet tightly confined

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Family

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Moore Barlow—Jess Ready & Natasha Jones

Watershed—Rob Elliott

Devonshires—Aoife Murphy & Mandeep Sahota