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Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, has issued national guidance on COVID-19 for the Family Court and the High Court Family Division

Gender equality demands flexibility & discretion, not blunt instruments says Graeme Fraser

David Burrows marks Lady Hale’s involvement in the development & introduction of the Children Act

The role Lady Hale played in shaping and developing the concepts behind the Children Act 1989 is perhaps her greatest achievement, writes family lawyer David Burrows in NLJ this week

A professional support, networking and mentoring association dedicated to supporting women working in family law launches in March

The lack of fairness in financial settlements means the Divorce, Dissolution & Separation Bill now going through Parliament misses the mark, says Dr Michael Arnheim

A judge should not have granted a decree nisi of nullity to a couple who had an Islamic wedding, a Nikah, because the marriage was not valid under English law in the first place

Family lawyers of the future may have to grapple with complex ethical questions concerning parental disputes where a child’s genetic makeup is manipulated at conception to produce socially desirable characteristics, a family judge has predicted

Tickets are now available for the International Family Law conference 2020, in London on 26 March

Family judges who hear cases involving serious sexual assault are to be given the same training as criminal judges, after a decision by Judge Tolson QC was found to be ‘so flawed as to require a retrial’

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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