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Cryptocurrencies have added an additional layer of complexity to the division of matrimonial assets, say George Williamson & Katie Alexiou

Due to popular demand and school holidays, the deadline for entries for the Family Law Awards 2019 has been extended to midnight on Friday 14 June
Step-families are on the rise in the UK, but the law has not kept pace, a family lawyer writes in this week’s NLJ
Family lawyers have called on Justice Secretary David Gauke to set up an independent inquiry into domestic abuse cases in the family court, instead of the three-month departmental review announced last week.
Potential special guardians for children submitted at a late stage in proceedings ‘must be realistic and not merely a trawl through all possible options’, the President of the Family Division has said.

Clamour for divorce reform should be seen alongside the less well-publicised unfairness caused by outdated marriage laws, says David Burrows

What if you advise your client to pursue arbitration, only for them to receive an unfavourable result? Amy Fox weighs up the pros & cons of arbitration in family cases

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Druces LLP—Daniel Lloyd

Corporate and commercial team welcomes technology specialist as partner

Birketts—Michael Conway

Birketts—Michael Conway

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

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou

Spector Constant & Williams—Anna Christou

Real estate finance practice announces partner appointment

NEWS
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
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
Richard Orpin has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees all nine legal regulators
Workers will be given day-one rights to parental leave in April, the government has confirmed
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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