Lucy Barnes CEO and Co-Founder 'Lawyers Who Care CIC' and Pupil Barrister East Anglian Chambers The impact of trauma on ability to recall and recount testimony has been recognised as a key issue for ...
The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...
A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...
Despite disability being a Section 25 factor in its own right, there is a dearth of resources specifically addressing the same. Often rolled into earning capacity, disability in one or more parties to ...
A will is revoked by the testator’s marriage or civil partnership. The Law Commission has consulted twice on whether this rule should be retained in modern conditions. The author examines the ...
In July 2024 after three years of hearings and adjournments Mrs Justice Arbuthnot handed down her judgment in AA v ZZ a case which she described as unusual and perplexing. The Applicant wanted a child ...
Six months on from the implementation of changes to FPR rules surrounding NCDR, this article takes the opportunity to reflect holistically on: the aims of the changes; whether they have helped or ...
The movement towards open adoption from public care in the UK has been emerging from research with patchy application in practice. The possibility of continued relationships between birth relatives ...
There are more than 85 unofficial Sharia courts operating in the UK, a new report by the rightwing think tank Civitas has revealed. The courts, which usually apply Sharia law in family or financial ...
The Ministry for Justice has published quarterly court statistics for July to September 2009. The figures show that there were 34,400 petitions filed for dissolution of marriage in the third quarter ...
Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...