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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.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

Gloucestershire firm boosts residential conveyancing team

mfg Solicitors—Andrew Johnson

mfg Solicitors—Andrew Johnson

Firm strengthens corporate team in Worcester with new hire

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong

Weightmans partner appointed president of London Market Forum of Insurance Lawyers

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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