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Global family conference

23 April 2019
Categories: Legal News , Family , Child law , Profession
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Family lawyers, academics and social scientists are invited to submit papers for the World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights conference in Singapore, 19-22 July 2020. They should submit abstracts under the conference theme, ‘2020 vision: through the eyes of a child’ by 31 July 2019. Areas for submission are listed on the conference website and include: new approaches to family justice, exploitation of children, international families, protecting especially vulnerable children, social media and children, and several more. The conference is held every four years. More information, including how to submit abstracts, can be found here.

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NEWS
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
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
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
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
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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