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Family lawyers organisation Resolution has launched a jumbo training package to ease its members through lockdown

Remote hearings, video hearings or no hearing at all? Sheena Cassidy Hope considers how the family courts might evolve

Fact-finding hearings in private children proceedings: an overview, by Kim Beatson & Victoria Brown

A Scottish divorce case in the Supreme Court could have ramifications for separating couples south of the border

Three decades of campaigning for no-fault divorce came to fruition last week after the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill cleared its final parliamentary hurdles

Three decades of campaigning for no-fault divorce came to fruition this week as the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill cleared its final parliamentary stages

A sibling’s Art 8 right to family life is not breached by denial of ‘relevant person’ status in public law cases where their younger brother or sister is in local authority care, the Supreme Court has held

The Family Online Mediation and Arbitration Service (FOMAS)

Family lawyers were keeping a watchful eye on events in Westminster this week as the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill reached its final stages

‘The Road Ahead’ set out for family courts

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Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Corporate and commercial team welcomes technology specialist as partner

Birketts—Michael Conway

IP partner joins team in Bristol to lead branding and trade marks practice

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou

Real estate finance practice announces partner appointment

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Flaws found in fixed costs regime

The extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) from low-value personal injury to most civil cases worth up to £100,000 ‘is failing to deliver what it promised’, the Law Society has warned

Brimelow sets out Bar priorities for 2026

Bar campaigns will focus on protecting juries, legal aid and children’s rights in the year ahead with a working group already looking into the age of criminal responsibility, chair Kirsty Brimelow KC has said

CEO appointed at legal super-regulator

Richard Orpin has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees all nine legal regulators

Parental leave rights given effect

Workers will be given day-one rights to parental leave in April, the government has confirmed

Appointments at the Supreme Court

Lord Sales has become deputy president, and Lord Doherty a justice, at the Supreme Court. Both were sworn in this week at a ceremony conducted by the court’s president Lord Reed in Courtroom One

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Family

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Birketts—Michael Conway

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou