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Civil way: 28 June 2019

27 June 2019
Issue: 7846 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Divorce bill conclusive; lift news; case pipeline; CICB change; appealing odds

BREAKING DOWN

‘My dear Parliamentary Counsel,

Further to my instructions published in the New Law Journal for 19 and 26 April 2019 (‘Civil way’, p17), you’ve done a magnificent job with the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill which was due to receive its second reading on 25 June 2019. Not sure about the title, though. I think The Great Escape might be better. I know I suggested an irrebuttable presumption of irretrievable breakdown but I was jesting. A statement by one of both the parties that the marriage or civil partnership has irretrievably broken is to be taken as conclusive evidence that this is so, may be going too far. Expect trouble. We need to squeeze into the primary legislation savings for fraud, coercion, mistake, lack of a dictionary to check the meaning of ‘irretrievably’ situations, don’t you think?

And thanks for the new s 10 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and s 48 of the Civil Partnership

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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