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Bereavement damages for cohabiting couples
A draft remedial order to make bereavement damages available to cohabiting couples of two years or more as well as parents, spouses and civil partners has been welcomed by the parliamentary Human Rights Committee
19 May 2020
Join the Family Justice Council
The Family Justice Council is looking for two new members―a justices’ clerk or assistant justices’ clerk and a paediatrician
18 May 2020
LexisNexis: Remote hearings in private client law
Some private client hearings are more suited to remote justice than others, 5 Stone Buildings barristers Ruth Hughes and Eliza Eagling have explained in a LexisNexis interview this week
13 May 2020
Remote justice poses painful dilemmas
Judges must be ‘hard-headed’ when deciding which cases to prioritise for remote hearings and which can wait, the senior family judge has said
05 May 2020
COVID-19: Remote hearing ruled out for adoption case
An adoption case involving six children between the ages of three and seventeen cannot go ahead remotely because the father did not feel competent at using technology, the Court of Appeal has held
30 April 2020
Henry VIII & a Divorce Bill Premium Content
The time has come to consider the plight of the increasing numbers of people who are outside the pale of UK marriage laws, says David Burrows
29 April 2020 / David Burrows
COVID-19: Fertility clinics given extra time for frozen eggs
Family lawyers have welcomed a two-year extension for frozen eggs, sperm and embryos stored in fertility clinics
28 April 2020
COVID-19: Keeping the show on the road
Barristers, solicitors, court staff, judiciary, and all those others who support court users have been praised for working ‘around the clock to explore and deliver extraordinary changes at great pace’
21 April 2020
Separated families, child arrangements & coronavirus Premium Content
Alexandra Baggallay considers the law & options available for separated parents during COVID-19
20 April 2020 / Alexandra Baggallay
COVID-19: Conflict resolution & separated families Premium Content
Graeme Fraser stresses the importance of reducing conflict over child arrangements during the lockdown
20 April 2020
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Court delays weigh heavily on children
Chronic delays, duplication of work, cancelled hearings and inefficiencies in the family law courts are letting children and victims of domestic abuse down, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry has found
NLJ this week: Redrawing boundaries for fiduciary duties and motor finance claims
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
NLJ this week: BBC’s open justice bid fails in care proceedings
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
NLJ this week: Parliamentary privilege—shield or sword?
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
NLJ this week: Litigation funding must serve justice, not failure
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
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