Family

Peter Hungerford-Welch, associate dean, The City  Law School, City University London. www.city.ac.uk/law

Have prenups come of age? Laura Brown & Nicola Fisher investigate

Geraldine Morris looks at the implications of the Civil Partnership Act 2004

EM (Lebanon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ALF and others intervening [2008] UKHL 64, [2008] All ER (D) 206 (Oct)

Government seeking to reduce burden on statutory schemes

Practice Direction (family proceedings) (listing final hearings in adoption cases) [2008] All ER (D) 134 (Oct)

RK and another v United Kingdom [2008] All ER (D) 143 (Oct)

Adhering to good practice can reduce hostility in family law proceedings, says Lorraine Jones

Re S (a child) (placement order: revocation) [2008] All ER (D) 48 (Oct)

David Burrows considers issues of “magnetic importance”